![]() ![]() James' momentous Beyond a Boundary (1963) foregrounds cricket not only at the center of West Indian cultural practices but also at the nexus of colonial rule and class antagonism that has constructed Trinidad's precarious national identity.Ĭricket's political resonance, as the book's title suggests, extends beyond the "boundary" of the cricket pitch and, moreover, interrogates the tenuous boundaries that separate culture from politics, race from class, high culture from low. "Beyond a Boundary": Cricket and West Indian Self-Determination "Beyond a Boundary": Cricket and West Indian Self-Determination Benjamin Graves '98, Brown Universityīoth an autobiographical memoir of his Trinidadian upbringing and a social-historical appraisal of West-Indian cricket, C.L.R. ![]()
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