Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature

Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. She publishes regularly on cricket and literature. She is also co-author of The Public on the Public (2015) and co-editor of Cross-Gendered Literary Voices (2012), Literature of an Independent England (2013), and Prison Writing and the Literary World (2020).

• 1. Introduction: Cricket, Literature and What CLR James Knew.- 2. Remembering Boyhood, Fathering, and the Villages of Cricket.- 3. “You want to deny me style”: Cricketing Representation, Communal Manhood and Nationbased Becoming.- 4.“Give the Ball to the Poet”: Poetic “Rites”, Heroic Action and Sublime Ambitions.- 5. Playing Away, Playing Again.- 6. Conclusion.