Writing the body in motion : a critical anthology on Canadian sport literature / edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp.

Includes bibliographical references.

W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe: The Fairy Tale, the Hero's Quest, and the Magic Realism of Baseball -- The Myth of Hockey and Identity in Paul Quarrington's King Leary -- Hockey, Humour, and Play in Wayne Johnston's The Divine Ryans -- The Poetry of Hockey in Richard Harrison's Hero of the Play -- Glaciers, Embodiment, and the Sublime: An Ecocritical Approach to Thomas Wharton's Icefields -- Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston's The Good Body -- The Darkening Path: The Hero-Athlete Reconsidered in Angie Abdou's The Bone Cage -- "Open the door to the roaring darkness": The Enigma of Terry Sawchuk in Randall Maggs's Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems -- From Tank to Deep Water: Myth and History in Samantha Warwick's Sage Island -- Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod's "Miracle Mile" -- Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse.

"Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre's potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts. The contributions sketch the state of current scholarship, highlight recurring themes and patterns, and offer close readings of key works. Organized chronologically by source text, ranging from Shoeless Joe (1982) to Indian Horse (2012), the essays offer a variety of ways to read, consider, teach, and write about sport literature."--

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