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...library that includes the work of such contemporary commentators as Mike Marqusee and Hilary Beckles, and whose founding text is of course CL. R. James's Beyond a Boundary, first published in 1963. Four of the twelve chapters in the volume first appeared as articles in Race & Class.
The volume as a whole is organised around a certain number of key premises or arguments. The most basic of these is the Jamesian insight that cricket is an intrinsically social practice and, more than this, a site for the expression, playing out and (sometimes) the imaginary resolution of social relations. Cricket does not so much reflect these relations as enact and re-present them in coded form. Searle also follows James in arguing that, because of the game's sociality, the politics of cricketing performance must be assessed in terms of players' relationship to their communities. At the most general level, therefore, he writes that 'on the pitch of the world, we see empire, class, emerging and struggling nationhood, gender, racist contempt and racial pride playing out their antagonisms in the future of the present'; and, at the more specific level of politics, he observes that 'if sport ... is to remain, as James saw it, both a spur and a reflector, and not a...
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