Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature

• Main Author: Edited by Angie Abdou (auth)
• Other Authors: Edited by Jamie Dopp (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2018
• Subjects: hockey; sports; gender; winter; Shoeless Joe; sport lit; lacrosse; violence
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 contine...