Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Sporting)

Farred, Grant

ISBN 10: 1592133746 / ISBN 13: 9781592133741

Editore: Temple University Press, 2008

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Riassunto:

Since he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world.  Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan.  Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- especially Liverpool -- and watched it from afar.  Writing about his experience, Farred shares with the reader his experience growing up colored in South Africa, moving to England, and finally to the US, and how his passion for football kept company with his many moves.  Along the way, he talks about the contradictions of football; how race and class politics mix on and off the pitch; how Farred's own ideas about what it means to be a colonial subject is both reinforced and liberated by the idea of football, and how players can serve as gods and mosnters. 

Informazioni sull?autore:

Grant Farred is the author, most recently, of What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals. He is a life-long fan of Liverpool Football Club, the greatest and most successful club in the history of English football.

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Titolo: Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (...
Casa editrice: Temple University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good