For in this brilliantly written and stirring masterpiece of historical writing - surely among the great books of 20th century scholarship - one also encounters a genuinely heroic as well as tragic story. Readers who do not know of the book react with excitement and admiration, and there is for me the special pleasure of watching people make a major discovery, as I had made the same discovery some time before. Originally published in 1938, it is a study of the great Haitian slave insurrection that began in 1791 and was directly influenced by the ideas and actions of the French Revolution of 1789. James' book, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. $35 paperback, $13.95 FOR SEVERAL YEARS I have been introducing students and friends to C.L.R. JAMES The Artist as Revolutionary By Paul Buhle Verso. Cudjoe, David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Paget Henry, Christian Høgsbjerg, C. Anima Adjepong, David Austin, Hilary McD. Including a previously unseen first draft of Beyond a Boundary's conclusion alongside contributions from James's key collaborator Selma James and from Michael Brearley, former captain of the English Test cricket team, Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket provides a thorough and nuanced examination of James's groundbreaking work and its lasting impact.Ĭontributors. More than fifty years after the publication of James's classic text, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate Beyond a Boundary's production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and English and Caribbean identity. James's Beyond a Boundary is-among other things-a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C.
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