Beyond Boundaries

Christopher Gair is a lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the co-editor of Moving Beyond Boundaries 1: International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing (Pluto, 2006) and author of The American Counterculture (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

• Introduction: C.L.R. James and Postnational StudiesChristopher Gair, University of Birmingham1. James, Genre and Cultural Politics by Nicole King, University of California, San Diego2. ‘Summer of Hummer’: C.L.R. James, American Civilization, and the (Necro)Political Crisis by Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz3. C.L.R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies by Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College4. Beyond Boundaries: Cricket, Herman Melville, and C.L.R. James’s Cold War by Christopher Gair, University of Birmingham5. The Odd Couple: C. L. R. James, Hannah Arendt and the Return of Politics in the Cold War by Richard King, University of Nottingham6. C.L.R. James’s American Civilization by Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London7. C.L.R. James and the Politics of the Subject, Culture and Desire by Anthony Bogues, Brown University8. C.L.R. James, Critical Humanist by Brian Alleyne, Goldsmiths College, LondonNotes on contributorsIndex