Abstract
As with other sports under consideration in this volume, cricket is both a game and a source of entertainment and identity. Although largely absent in the American sports lineup, cricket occupies a central position in the consciousness of people who lived—or whose ancestors lived—under British colonial rule around the world. It has, as a result, always been tied to colonial and postcolonial struggles on and off the field; its fans have always found meaning in a broad social context. In this essay, two different voices emerge and then merge in an attempt to explore contemporary West Indian cricket and its discontents.
But the mystery of the colonial is this: while he remains alive, his instinct always and forever creative, must choose a way to change the meaning and perspective of this ancient tyranny.
—George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile
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See bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (Boston: South End Press, 1989).
James quoted in Hilary McD. Beckles, The Development of West Indies Cricket: Volume I, The Age of Nationalism (Kingston: University Press of the West Indies, 1998), 175.
C. L. R. James, Beyond a Boundary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998).
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Aviston Downes, “Gender and the Elementary Teaching Service in Barbados, 1880–1960: A Re-examination of the Feminization and Marginalization of the Black Male Theses,” in Eudine Barriteau, ed., Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2003), 303–323; Eudine Barriteau, “Requiem for the Male Marginalization Thesis in the Caribbean: Death of a Non-Theory,” in Barriteau, 324–355.
Michiko Hase, “Race in Soccer as a Global Sport,” in Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture, ed. John Bloom and Michael Nevin Willard (New York: NYU Press, 2002), 308.
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Arthur, M., Scanlon, J. (2005). Reading and Rereading the Game. In: Bass, A. (eds) In the Game. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980458_5
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