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The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature Claire Westall

The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature By Claire Westall

The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature by Claire Westall


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Summary

It examines works by canonical authors Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon and by understudied writers including Agard, Fergus, John, Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. Literary depictions of iconic West Indies players including Constantine, Headley, Worrell, Walcott, Sobers, Richards, and Lara feature throughout.

The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature Summary

The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature by Claire Westall

This book analyses crickets place in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It examines works by canonical authors Brathwaite, Lamming, Lovelace, Naipaul, Phillips and Selvon and by understudied writers including Agard, Fergus, John, Keens-Douglas, Khan and Markham. It tackles short stories, novels, poetry, drama and film from the Caribbean and its diaspora. Its literary readings are couched in the history of Caribbean cricket and studies by Hilary Beckles and Gordon Rohlehr. C.L.R James foundationalBeyond a Boundaryprovides its theoretical grounding. Literary depictions of iconic West Indies players including Constantine, Headley, Worrell, Walcott, Sobers, Richards, and Lara feature throughout. The discussion focuses on masculinity, heroism, father-son dynamics, physical performativity and aesthetic style. Attention is also paid to mother-daughter relations and female engagement with cricket, with examples fromAnim-Addo, Breeze, Wynterand others. Cricket holds a prominent place in the history, culture, politics and popular imaginary of the Caribbean. This book demonstrates that it also holds a significant and complicated place in Anglophone Caribbean literature.

About Claire Westall

Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She publishes regularly on cricket and literature. She is also co-author of The Public on the Public (2015) and co-editor of Cross-Gendered Literary Voices (2012), Literature of an Independent England (2013), and Prison Writing and the Literary World (2020).


Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Cricket, Literature and What CLR James Knew.- 2. Remembering Boyhood, Fathering, and the Villages of Cricket.- 3. You want to deny me style: Cricketing Representation, Communal Manhood and Nationbased Becoming.- 4.Give the Ball to the Poet: Poetic Rites, Heroic Action and Sublime Ambitions.- 5. Playing Away, Playing Again.- 6. Conclusion.

Additional information

NPB9783030659714
9783030659714
3030659712
The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature by Claire Westall
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-07-02
282
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