The world, the text and the cricket
Romesh Gunesekera'sThe Match
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert F Spencer (corresponding author), Robert Spencer (0000-0003-0860-4717) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 274-286 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2016.1203101 |
| OpenAlex | W2501122245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the ways in which Romesh Gunesekera’s novel The Match (2006) presents cricket as a versatile and democratic cultural practice. It argues that cricket is a worldly game in Edward’s Said’s sense, being both a versatile practice and an extremely mobile signifier. Cricket’s styles and meanings are radically refashioned by players and spectators alike, in different periods and, crucially, in different places across the diverse and unevenly developed territories to which the game has travelled. Then, with the aid of a brief consideration of C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary (1963), his classic study of the ways in which cricket is played and watched in the anglophone Caribbean, the article goes on to suggest that cricket is also a potentially utopian form of cultural practice. Gunesekera’s novel furnishes images of cricket’s capacity to register and envision alternatives to the trauma and violence of postcolonial history
Aesthetics · Art · Cricket · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature · Ecology · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |