Beyond a Boundary

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780224074278
• ISBN10: 022407427X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Random House UK

Summary

Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part celebration of the game of cricket, this self-portrait of a life spent playing, watching and writing about the game, tells us of its psychology and aesthetics, players the author knew, and the issues of class, race and politics surrounding it.

Author Biography

C.L.R James—historian, novelist, cultural critic, and political activist—was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1901. In 1932 he moved to Britain and became cricket correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A central figure in the Pan-African movement and the struggle for colonial emancipation, he returned to Trinidad in 1958 in its run-up to independence. He later returned to London, where he died in 1989. His previous books include The Black Jacobins and Minty Alley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the American Edition

A Note on Cricket

Preface

A Window to the World

The Window

Against the Current

Old School-tie

All the World's a Stage

The Light and the Dark

Patient Merit

Three Generations

The Most Unkindest Cut

One Man in His Time

Prince and Pauper

Magnanimity in Politics

Wherefore Are These Things Hid?

To Interpose a Little Ease

George Headley: Nascitur Non Fit

W.G.: Pre-eminent Victorian

What Do Men Live By?

Prolegomena to W. G.

W. G.

Decline of the West

The Art and Practic Part

"What is Art?"

The Welfare State of Mind

Vox Populi

The Proof of the Pudding

Alma Mater: Lares and Penates

Epilogue and Apotheosis

Index

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