Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature

AvClaire Westall

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien New Caribbean Studies

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Caribbean Studies
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030659745

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Bollsport inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

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.