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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Sullivan is a lecturer at Richland College in Dallas, Texas. She also directs the honors program, honors study abroad, Phi Theta Kappa IHC courses, and learning communities at the college. Klappentext Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created original characters for sports stories. How have women fared in this literature? Women Characters in Baseball Literature is the first comprehensive evaluation of the women characters of baseball literature, including women's crucial roles on and off the field of play. Applying several feminist theories and examining the works in the context of both myth and psychology, the author discusses baseball fiction written by both men and women. Among the topics discussed are the literary implications of motherhood; how patterns of behavior in women characters often recall Greek goddesses; and how women characters and the feminist imagination enrich the literature of this apparently masculinized sport. Authors covered include Bernard Malamud, Mark Harris, August Wilson, Lamar Herrin, Nancy Willard, Silvia Tennenbaum, Karen Joy Fowler, and others. Zusammenfassung This is a comprehensive evaluation of the women characters of baseball literature! including women's crucial roles on and off the field of play. Applying several feminist theories and examining the works in the context of both myth and psychology! the author discusses baseball fiction written by both men and women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Taken Out of the Ballgame One: Mount Olympus in the Majors. Two: Gods and Goddesses at the Plate Three: Absent Mothers and Mothering Men Four: Substitute Mothering in The Southpaw and She's on First Five: The Transformational Goddesses Six: The Compound Goddesses Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
