Beyond a Boundary: 50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)

Du site de l'éd. : 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 About The Author(s) 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 Contents......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Foreword......Page 16 Introduction to the American Edition, by Robert Lipsyte......Page 22 A Note on Cricket......Page 28 Preface......Page 32 Part One. A Window to the World......Page 34 1. The Window......Page 36 2. Against the Current......Page 54 3. Old School-tie......Page 72 Part Two. All the World’s a Stage......Page 80 4. The Light and the Dark......Page 82 5. Patient Merit......Page 99 6. Three Generations......Page 105 7. The Most Unkindest Cut......Page 115 Part Three. One Man in His Time......Page 132 8. Prince and Pauper......Page 134 9. Magnanimity in Politics......Page 150 10. Wherefore Are These Things Hid?......Page 161 Part Four. To Interpose a Little Ease......Page 170 11. George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit......Page 172 Part Five. W. G.: Pre-eminent Victorian......Page 182 12. What Do Men Live By?......Page 184 13. Prolegomena to W. G.......Page 192 14. W. G.......Page 204 15. Decline of the West......Page 219 Part Six. The Art and Practic Part......Page 226 16. ‘What Is Art?’......Page 228 17. The Welfare State of Mind......Page 245 Part Seven. Vox Populi......Page 256 18. The Proof of the Pudding......Page 258 19. Alma Mater: Lares and Penates......Page 286 Epilogue and Apotheosis......Page 290 Index......Page 296