{"product_id":"beyond-a-boundary-paperback","title":"Beyond a Boundary - Paperback","description":"This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic \u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.\u003cp\u003eNamed one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway.\"-\u003cb\u003eDerek Walcott\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, \u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme.\"-\u003cb\u003eEdward Said\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world.\"-\u003cb\u003eWhitney Balliett\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.\"-\u003cb\u003eMark Naison\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket.\"-\u003cb\u003eE. P. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times.\"-\u003cb\u003eManning Marable\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Sport \u0026amp; Social Issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The great triumph of \u003ci\u003eBeyond a Boundary\u003c\/i\u003e is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society.\"-\u003cb\u003eCaryl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48710390448345,"sku":"9780822355632","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3121\/5065\/files\/9780822355632.jpg?v=1778803767","url":"https:\/\/www.blacknectarbooks.com\/products\/beyond-a-boundary-paperback","provider":"blacknectar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}