Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball Behind the Color Line - Rilegato

Rutter, Emily Ruth

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ISBN 10: 1496817125 ISBN 13: 9781496817129

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2018

Riassunto

Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson's momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others.

Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.

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Informazioni sull'autore

<b>Emily Ruth Rutter</b> is associate professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of <i>The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry</i>. Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she coedited <i>Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era</i>. Her numerous essays have appeared in <i>A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry</i>, <i>African American Review</i>, <i>MELUS</i>, and <i>Aethlon</i>, among other journals and edited collections.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1496817125
• ISBN 13: 9781496817129
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 190
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