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The Caribbean and C.L.R. James I was sitting on a beach in Jamaica reading a collection of C.L.R. James s occasional writings on cricket (Grimshaw 1986). The place had once belonged to Errol Flynn. My daughter was playing on the edge of the sea. James had been Neville Cardus s deputy as the Manchester Guardian s cricket correspondent in the 1930s. I found myself reading about my father s heroes in the Lancashire cricket team of that period as if it was today s sports news. I had been devouring everything I could by James since I came to Jamaica to help establish a new graduate school for social science research. I knew that he had lived in Lancashire when he left Trinidad for Britain. It occurred to me that we had lived in the same places, the Caribbean, Britain, America, Africa-in a different sequence, at different times and with very different trajectories. Now, watching my daughter play on that exotic beach, with my father s stories from childhood coming alive again, the gap between this old black man and mysel f was collapsed into a single moment by the compelling immediacy of James s prose. Generation and racial differences were erased in an epiphany of timeless connection. I felt compelled to meet him and so I wrote the first and only fan letter of my life. Dear Mr James, Like you I have lived in Britain, the USA, Africa and now the Caribbean. I started out from Lancashire. In the last few months, I have read a good fraction of your writings, as well as aShow MoreRelatedEssay on Colonial Oppression of Women1123 Words   |  5 Pages London : Routledge. 2006. Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London : Routledge, 2001. Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in English. U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2007. James, A. A. ed. In Their Own Voices: African Women Writers Talk. London : James Currey, 1990. Lazarus, Neil (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Theory. U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Read More Bhabhas Contribution to Postcolonial Theory Essay2599 Words   |  11 Pages London : Routledge. 2006. Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London : Routledge, 2001. Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in English. U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2007. James, A. A. ed. In Their Own Voices: African Women Writers Talk. London : James Currey, 1990. Lazarus, Neil (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Theory. U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Read MoreBuchi Emecheta and African Traditional Society Essay1918 Words   |  8 Pages London : Routledge. 2006. Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London : Routledge, 2001. Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in English. U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2007. James, A. A. ed. In Their Own Voices: African Women Writers Talk. London : James Currey, 1990. Lazarus, Neil (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Theory. U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Read MorePortable Manual Cell Phone Charger9744 Words   |  39 PagesDae-Hyun; Moon, Seung-Ryul; Han, Choong-Kyu. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. (Nov2012), Vol. 48 Issue 11, p2977-2980. Nass, Richard. Portable Design. (Nov2003). Vol. 9 Issue 11, p31-31. 1p. 1 Color Photograph. Caribbean Business. 1/26/2006, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p38-38. 1/3p. Hui, S. Y. R.; Ho, Wing. W. C. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. (May2005). Vol. 20 Issue 3, p620-627. 8p. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2005.846550. Freeman, Dave. Portable Design. (May2006). Vol. 12 Issue 5, p8-8. 1p. L.I.