Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine
Autor David Shields Introducere de Robert Lipsyteen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2007
In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire in denial. Shields relentlessly examines the way we tell our sports stories (both fictional and nonfictional), considers the kinds of athletes we choose as heroes, and delineates the lessons and values we glean from sports. He explores the intricate and telling relationships between players and coaches, black and white players, immigrant and native players, male and female players, players and broadcasters, players and fans, and players and advertisers. In the process, he shows us the stories we Americans tell ourselves about the kind of people we believe ourselves to be.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803260320
ISBN-10: 0803260326
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803260326
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
David Shields is a professor of English at the University of Washington and the author of seven previous books, including Heroes: A Novel and Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, both available in Bison Books editions. Robert Lipsyte, a longtime sports and city columnist for the New York Times, is the author of sixteen books, including most recently the novel Raiders Night.
Cuprins
Introduction by Robert Lipsyte
The Wound and the Bow: A Long Prologue
On the Need to Connect with Something Larger than Yourself
Fairy Tale of Reinvention and Escape
Words Can't Begin to Describe What I'm Feeling
Heaven Is a Playground
Fandom
History of America, #34
How It Feels to Be a Problem
Myths of Place
A Little Euro Trash-Talk
Being Ichiro
Matsui Among the Americans
Bring the Pain
Being Random Is the Key to Life
42 Tattoos: An Epilogue
Recenzii
"Shields has carved out a singular place for himself as the poet of sports writing."—Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“[Shields is] one of the most necessary, if discomfiting, commentators on American sports today. In this collection of slyly observant, personally inflected essays, he patiently lays out the various elements of athletic myth that come wrapped seamlessly around other signature American obsessions—money, celebrity, self-reliance and, most of all, race.”—Chris Lehman, Washington Post
“[Shields] elucidates superbly the paradox of sports coverage: although feats of the body seem to defy language, sports is nonetheless ‘imprisoned by its prevailing rhetoric.’ The ambition in these piercing essays is to discern the reality behind the rhetoric.”—Daniel G. Habib, Sports Illustrated
“Sweeping insights . . . an intellectual tour de force.”—Steve Weinberg, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Like Charles Barkley, Shields is outspoken, controversial, and never dull.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A thinking person's collection of sports essays. . . . The author is a mild, reflective man who suspects there is a strong element of resurrection and salvation in sports . . . and who can cobble together a fluid chapter out of sporting clichés: ten pages that sound either like wacky Shakespeare or a whole lot of ironic license plates tied end-to-end. Pensive and shrewd."—Kirkus