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Book Summary of Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age: Following on
In "Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age," the contributors take up the study, exploring contemporary post-colonial culture, identity, and relationships right across the old Empire through analysis of the cricketing cultures of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and Britain.
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 Australia, New Zealand and post-apartheid South Africa
* cricket in England since the 1950s.
This new book is ideal for students of sport, politics, history and postcolonialism as it provides stimulating and comprehensive discussions of the major issues including race, migration, gobalization, neoliberal economics, the media, religion and sectarianism. ISBN
9780415363488
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Pages : 296
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