Overview
This book analyzes how success and failure in West Indies Test Match cricket have been used as vehicles for forging identity of Caribbean people during post-colonial periods. Focusing primarily on the three-term leadership of Brian Charles Lara, this work offers an assessment of links among West Indies cricket, the search for collective anti-colonial assertiveness, and the striving of Anglo-Caribbean people for identities of self-determination. The main aims behind this work can be described: demonstrating that cricket can, and has been, used as a powerful instrument of social transformation and liberation among oppressed people, within and beyond fields of play; recovering significant socioeconomic forces that lie behind a lengthy period of shameful decline in West Indies Test Match cricket; showing how inability to appreciate the value of social transformation has contributed to loss of Caribbean dominance in Test Match cricket; and, expressing the elegance, grace, and beauty of a game, at its highest competitive level. These goals are clearly suited to the interests of those who wish to explore how oppressed persons of color have and have not been using routes of sporting improvisation and creativity to assert themselves over colonialism and neocolonialism.
Full Product Details
Author: William H. Walcott
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN: 9780773436046
ISBN 10: 0773436049
Pages: 386
Publication Date: May 2010
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""The work is comprehensive, analytical, and interdisciplinary at the same time, compared to the more descriptive, anecdotal and literary works before it in this field. Very imaginatively, also, the author uses cricket to enhance our understanding of the relationship between talent, genius, and greatness in individual leadership qualities, in contexts of social disadvantage and struggles against overwhelming odds."" - Dr. Perry Mars Wayne State University"""
The work is comprehensive, analytical, and interdisciplinary at the same time, compared to the more descriptive, anecdotal and literary works before it in this field. Very imaginatively, also, the author uses cricket to enhance our understanding of the relationship between talent, genius, and greatness in individual leadership qualities, in contexts of social disadvantage and struggles against overwhelming odds. - Dr. Perry Mars Wayne State University
