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Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature Book

Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature
Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature, Over the course of the last century, American fiction writers and poets have used sports figures and sporting events in order to make significant points on themes of identity as they are connected to gender, race, class, and nationality. The contributors , Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature
  • Written by author Michael Cocchiarale
  • Published by Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, August 2004
  • Over the course of the last century, American fiction writers and poets have used sports figures and sporting events in order to make significant points on themes of identity as they are connected to gender, race, class, and nationality. The contributors
  • Nineteen American academics and independent scholars contribute 18 essays addressing the treatment of sports in literature over the past 80 years, from a variety of perspectives. Coverage includes the significance of sports for both the individual and Ame
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Introduction : sports and American literature
Batters and archetypes : baseball as trope in mid-century American literature3
"War ... may hasten this change of values" : the World War II-era writings of John R. Tunis15
"Partway there" : the Mexican league and American conflict in Mark Winegardner's The Veracruz blues29
"The machine-language of the muscles" : reading, sport, and the self in Infinite jest41
White S(ox) vs. Indians : sports and unresolved cultural conflict in Native American fiction53
Basketball's demands in Paul Beatty's The white boy shuffle63
"Fairways of his imagination" : golf and social status in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction75
Dualism and the quest for wholeness in Ama Bontemps's God sends Sunday87
The female voice in American sports literature and the quest for a female sporting identity99
"Monsters" and "face queens" in Harry Crews's Body111
Hypermasculinity and sport in James Dickey's Deliverance121
The football elegies of James Dickey and Randall Jarrell : hegemonic masculinity versus the "semifeminine mind"131
Dancing with the bulls : engendering competition in Hemingway's The sun also rises and Silko's Ceremony143
Fouling out the American pastoral : rereading Philip Roth's The great American novel157
"And drive them from the temple" : baseball and the prophet in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant169
"The mob of carefree men and boys" : Vanity of Duluoz and Kerouac's panoramic consciousness179
"And that's the ball game!" : cognitive linguistics, the Life is a game metaphor and the late twentieth-century southern novel191


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