Beyond a Boundary
by CLR James
Cricket, colonialism, and what it means to play the master's game.
you think sport is just sport and want someone to show you why you're wrong
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James asks: what is cricket? And answers: everything. The class system, the colonial relationship, the way the West Indies used the game to assert dignity and eventually dominance against their colonizers. Part memoir, part history, part cultural theory — the book that invented sports writing as serious intellectual inquiry. A dispatch about how a colonized people take the colonizer's most beloved institution and turn it into an instrument of their own liberation. The best book ever written about sport and one of the best about colonialism.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Trinidad • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Trinidadian author
- Themes
- True Cost of Empire
