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Cover; Praise; Title Page; Acknowledgement; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Making of a Writer; 2: Nelson; 3: London; 4: When Slaves Rebelled; 5: The Struggle for Happiness; 6: Constantine's Influence; 7: Ghana: Defeat Again; 8: From a Room Carved of Books; 9: In Retrospect; A, B, C; NOTES; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; About the Author; By the Same Author; Copyright.;Known as?The Cricketing Marxist', Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901?89) was one of the leading black intellectuals of the 20th century, a Marxist theorist of the first rank, and also one of the finest writers on cricket, with his legendary book Beyond a Boundary. This seeming paradox is reflected in other areas of his life and work: the product of a British-style education and fanatical cricketer who never abandoned the values the sport inculcated in him, he was a Trotskyite expelled from the USA during the McCarthy era who was a friend and inspiration to a generation of leaders of newly-i.
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- Author
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert;James, Cyril L. R.;Renton, Dave
- Publisher
- HopeRoad Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781908446039
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
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