Claire Westall
Biographic Data
| ID | 75951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Westall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Westall |
| SIGNATURE | WESTALL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
C.L.R. James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries, by John L. Williams
The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature
Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice
An interview with Olive Senior
Olive Senior has become a significant literary voice within Caribbean literature and the Caribbean diaspora, often providing light, sharp, subtle, and emotionally laden stories and poems of childhood and belonging. As she describes here, her work remains “embedded” in Jamaica, including its soundscape and its ecology, and stretches across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. For decades she has enjoyed a growing international …
World-literary resources and energetic materialism
A car won't go without fuel, and neither will you."This was the proverbial mantra my lorry-driving father would use to encourage his skinny teenage daughter -with a nascent interest in cars -to eat more, to "get more down", even though our family resources were limited and the price of food a regular source of dispute.It stands as family wisdom, and perhaps rightly so given its demand for self-care and the ways in which humans and their machines …
An Interview with Mervyn Morris
Cricket and the world-system, or continuity, "riskless risk" and cyclicality in Joseph O'Neill'sNetherland
In Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008), cricket is the dominant thematic mechanism, and anchoring allegorical device, through which the novel encodes the capitalist world-system, including the ways in which structural continuity and “riskless risk” are glorified as the neo-liberal conditions for a cosmopolitan class of white international workers, in the face of, and directly at the expense of, their racialized, economic and cricketing “Other”. Th…
Introduction: The worldliness of cricket and its literature
In introducing the four articles that constitute a cricketing moment of focus for this issue of JPW, I have one key point to make – that cricket is a worldly and “worlded” game, one that should be
Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature
Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the
Neoliberal Britain's Austerity Foodscape: Home Economics, Veg Patch Capitalism and Culinary Temporality
This essay examines contemporary Britain’s foodscape in order to identify how mediatised life-quests uphold ‘boom-based’ culinary/consumptive motifs while mobilising a distinctive ‘austerity aesthetic’ that coincides and colludes with the British state’s neoliberal austerity narrative. In part one, ‘The British State of Home-Economics’, we examine this austerity aesthetic as it came to the fore during the ‘Great British Summer’ of 2012. In part t…
Marxism, cultural studies and sport
edited by Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald, London/New York, Routledge, 2009, xxxiv + 250 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐37541‐2 It is perhaps old‐hat, and less than interesting, to write a
The Her-story of Caribbean Cricket Poetry
This paper introduces and explores the relationship between Caribbean female poets and the game of cricket given cricket's historical importance to the Anglophone Caribbean and the numerous appearances of cricket within Caribbean literature. For if we are to appreciate cricket as a significant activity for the Caribbean, then the relationship between women and the game must also be investigated. In this context, it is noteworthy that a number of …
The pitch of the world: Cricket and Chris Searle
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
Men in the Yard and On the Street: Cricket and Calypso in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Miguel Street
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
World-literary resources and energetic materialism
A car won't go without fuel, and neither will you."This was the proverbial mantra my lorry-driving father would use to encourage his skinny teenage daughter -with a nascent interest in cars -to eat more, to "get more down", even though our family resources were limited and the price of food a regular source of dispute.It stands as family wisdom, and perhaps rightly so given its demand for self-care and the ways in which humans and their machines …
The Her-story of Caribbean Cricket Poetry
This paper introduces and explores the relationship between Caribbean female poets and the game of cricket given cricket's historical importance to the Anglophone Caribbean and the numerous appearances of cricket within Caribbean literature. For if we are to appreciate cricket as a significant activity for the Caribbean, then the relationship between women and the game must also be investigated. In this context, it is noteworthy that a number of …
The pitch of the world: Cricket and Chris Searle
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
Men in the Yard and On the Street: Cricket and Calypso in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and Miguel Street
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
The Her-story of Caribbean Cricket Poetry
This paper introduces and explores the relationship between Caribbean female poets and the game of cricket given cricket's historical importance to the Anglophone Caribbean and the numerous appearances of cricket within Caribbean literature. For if we are to appreciate cricket as a significant activity for the Caribbean, then the relationship between women and the game must also be investigated. In this context, it is noteworthy that a number of …
The pitch of the world: Cricket and Chris Searle
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
Marxism, cultural studies and sport
edited by Ben Carrington and Ian McDonald, London/New York, Routledge, 2009, xxxiv + 250 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐37541‐2 It is perhaps old‐hat, and less than interesting, to write a
Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature
Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the
Neoliberal Britain's Austerity Foodscape: Home Economics, Veg Patch Capitalism and Culinary Temporality
This essay examines contemporary Britain’s foodscape in order to identify how mediatised life-quests uphold ‘boom-based’ culinary/consumptive motifs while mobilising a distinctive ‘austerity aesthetic’ that coincides and colludes with the British state’s neoliberal austerity narrative. In part one, ‘The British State of Home-Economics’, we examine this austerity aesthetic as it came to the fore during the ‘Great British Summer’ of 2012. In part t…
An Interview with Mervyn Morris
Cricket and the world-system, or continuity, "riskless risk" and cyclicality in Joseph O'Neill'sNetherland
In Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008), cricket is the dominant thematic mechanism, and anchoring allegorical device, through which the novel encodes the capitalist world-system, including the ways in which structural continuity and “riskless risk” are glorified as the neo-liberal conditions for a cosmopolitan class of white international workers, in the face of, and directly at the expense of, their racialized, economic and cricketing “Other”. Th…
Introduction: The worldliness of cricket and its literature
In introducing the four articles that constitute a cricketing moment of focus for this issue of JPW, I have one key point to make – that cricket is a worldly and “worlded” game, one that should be
An interview with Olive Senior
Olive Senior has become a significant literary voice within Caribbean literature and the Caribbean diaspora, often providing light, sharp, subtle, and emotionally laden stories and poems of childhood and belonging. As she describes here, her work remains “embedded” in Jamaica, including its soundscape and its ecology, and stretches across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. For decades she has enjoyed a growing international …
World-literary resources and energetic materialism
A car won't go without fuel, and neither will you."This was the proverbial mantra my lorry-driving father would use to encourage his skinny teenage daughter -with a nascent interest in cars -to eat more, to "get more down", even though our family resources were limited and the price of food a regular source of dispute.It stands as family wisdom, and perhaps rightly so given its demand for self-care and the ways in which humans and their machines …
Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice
The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature
C.L.R. James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries, by John L. Williams
Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Cricket (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works)