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Titolo: Bodies Built for Game
Condizione: Nuovo
Subtítulos: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
ISBN-10: 149621773X
EAN: 9781496217738
ISBN: 9781496217738
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Formato: Tascabile
Data di pubblicazione: 01/10/2019
Description: Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unified as one energy.

Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada Limón, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games.

 
 

Lingua: inglese
Paese di origine: US
Altezza: 229mm
Lunghezza: 152mm
Contribuyente: Natalie Diaz (Edited by)
Autore: Natalie Diaz
Genere: Sports & Hobbies
Soggetto: Literary Criticism, Poetry & Drama
Title Format: Paperback
Anno di pubblicazione: 2019

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