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This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated "Beyond a Boundary . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."-Derek Walcott, The New York Times Book Review "As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."-Edward Said, The Washington Post "A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."-Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker "Beyond a Boundary is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world."-Mark Naison, The Nation "Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."-E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class "Beyond a Boundary is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times."-Manning Marable, Journal of Sport & Social Issues "The great triumph of Beyond a Boundary is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society."-Caryl Phillips, The New Republic

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix Foreword / Paget Henry xi Introduction to the American Edition / Robert Lipsyte xvii A Note on Cricket xxiii Preface xxvii Part One. A Window to the World 1. The Window 3 2. Against the Current 21 3. Old School-tie 39 Part Two. All the World's a Stage 4. The Light and the Dark 49 5. Patient Merit 66 6. Three Generations 72 7. The Most Unkindest Cut 82 Part Three. One Man in His Time 8. Prince and Pauper 101 9. Magnanimity in Politics 117 10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid? 128 Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease 11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit 139 Part Five. W. G.: Pre-Eminent Victorian 12. What Do Men Live By? 151 13. Prolegomena to W. G. 159 14. W. G. 171 15. Decline of the West 186 Part Six. The Art and Practic Part 16. "What Is Art?" 195 17. The Welfare State of Mind 212 Part Seven. Vox Populi 18. The Proof of the Pudding 225 19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates 253 Epilogue and Apotheosis 257 Index 263

About the Author :
C. L. R. James (1901–89), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and prolific writer, was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. He is the author of a renowned study of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins (1938), and a play, Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History (1934), which is published by Duke University Press.

Review :
“It's a measure of James's value as a writer that a case can be made that Beyond a Boundary is one of the best books about a sport ever written, and yet it's hard to imagine anyone placing it among the three or four most important books that James wrote. It is, however, well worth reading, because of what it tells us about James' political development, and because of its much broader lessons about sports.” - Don Lash (Socialist Worker) "Beyond a Boundary . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway." - Derek Walcott (New York Times Book Review) “Delightful and lively, full of vivid, detailed descriptions of players and play. . . .  I doubt I'll ever sit through an entire test match, but if you told me I could only keep a half-dozen sports books, this would probably be one of them.” - Tim Marchman (Deadspin) "As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme." - Edward Said (Washington Post) "A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world." - Whitney Balliett (The New Yorker) "Beyond a Boundary is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world." - Mark Naison (The Nation) "Beyond a Boundary is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times." - Manning Marable (Journal of Sport & Social Issues)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822355632
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: 50th Anniversary Edition
  • ISBN-10: 0822355639
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jun 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: The C. L. R. James Archives
  • Weight: 476 gr


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