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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.
List of contents
Introduction /
Angie Abdou1 W.P. Kinsella's
Shoeless Joe: Real People and Fantasy Quests /
Fred Mason2 "I join them in the circle": Mythologizing Hockey and Identity in Paul Quarrington's
King Leary /
Cara Hedley3 Hockey, Humour, and Play Wayne Johnston's
The Divine Ryans /
Jason Blake4 "steel on water frozen calm": the Poetry of Hockey in Richard Harrison's
Hero of the Play /
Paul Martin5 Glaciers, Embodiment, and the Sublime: An Introduction to Ecocriticism and Thomas Wharton's
Icefields /
Cory Willard6 Hockey, Zen and the Art of
The Good Body /
Jamie Dopp7 The Sporting Woman in Literature: Strategies of Exclusion and the Absence-Presence of the Male Athlete in Cara Hedley's
Twenty Miles /
Susan J. Bandy8 The Darkening Path: the Hero-Athlete Reconsidered in
The Bone Cage /
Gyllian Phillips9 "Open the door to the roaring darkness":the enigma of Terry Sawchuk in Randall Maggs'
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems / Paul Martin10 From Tank to Deep Water: Samantha Warwick's Sage
Island /
Jamie Dopp11 Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod's "Miracle Mile" /
Laura K Davis12 Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence & Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese's
Indian Horse / Sam McKegney and Trevor Phillips
About the author
Angie Abdou is assistant professor of creative writing at Athabasca University and a regular book reviewer for
Quill and Quire. She has published one short story collection and four novels.
Jamie Dopp is associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria, where he has taught a course in hockey and literature for a number of years. He has published two collections of poetry and a novel and in 2009, he coedited a collection of essays with Richard Harrison called
Now Is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey.
Summary
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.
