Cricket and calypso: Cultural representation and social history in the West Indies

Douglas K. Midgett
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‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ is the rhetorical question posed by C.L.R. James in the Preface to Beyond a Boundary, his comprehensive treatise on cricket, West Indian social history, English letters and class struggle. In the book he provides something of a response, explaining the importance of cricket in the West Indies for a people who have everything to do in constructing a national identity:
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板球和卡利普索:西印度群岛的文化表现和社会历史
“那些只懂板球的人对板球又了解多少呢?”这是C.L.R.詹姆斯(C.L.R. James)在《超越边界》(Beyond a Boundary)的序言中提出的反问句。詹姆斯是一本关于板球、西印度社会史、英语书信和阶级斗争的综合性著作。在书中,他给出了一些回应,解释了板球在西印度群岛的重要性,对于一个需要做一切事情来构建国家认同的人来说:
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