Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age : following on / edited by Stephen Wagg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagg, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cricket--Social aspects--Commonwealth countries.

Cricket.

Cricket--Political aspects--Commonwealth countries.

Nationalism and sports--Commonwealth countries.

Nationalism and sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers:* cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India* the cricket cultures of Aus

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Unity, difference and the 'national game'; 2 Kiwi or English?; 3 'No one in Dolly's class at present?'; 4 Play together, live apart; 5 History without a past; 6 Cricket in 'a nation imperfectly imagined'; 7 Sri Lanka; 8 One eye on the ball, one eye on the world; 9 Calypso kings, dark destroyers; 10 'A carnival of cricket?'; 11 Sheffield Caribbean; 12 Clean bowl racism?; 13 The ambush clause; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-22718-3

1-134-22719-1

1-280-31484-2

9786610314843

0-203-01460-X

9780203014608

OCLC:

299571773