Late Cuts: C. L. R. James, Cricket and Postcolonial England

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2011-03

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1746-0263

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Yes

Abstract

Focusing upon C. L. R. James's final cricket writings of the 1980s, the essay explores their place in his idiosyncratic Marxist cultural politics and argues that they address the question of the means by which a radical postcolonial Englishness might be made and expressed through sport.

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C. L. R. James, postcolonialism, cricket, Englishness

Citation

Featherstone, S. (2011) Late cuts: C.L.R. James, cricket and postcolonial England. Sport in History, 31 (1), pp. 49-61

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Research Institute