Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age :
[Book]
following on /
edited by Stephen Wagg.
London :
Routledge,
2005.
1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Exploring culture, politics, governance & economics, this volume places cricket in the post-colonial life of the major test-playing countries.
Ebook Library
EBL243147
Cricket and national identity in the postcolonial age.
0415363489
Cricket-- Political aspects-- Commonwealth countries.
Cricket-- Social aspects-- Commonwealth countries.