Refereeing Identity

The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels

Szerző: Michael Buma

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: McGill-Queen's University Press

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

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Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mytholo...

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Szerző

Michael Buma

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

336

EAN

9780773539877

ISBN

0773539875

Enbook ID

04919204

Kiadó

McGill-Queen's University Press

Súly

666

Méretek

152 x 229 x 712

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Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been exported to the US and traditional gender assumptions in hockey have increasingly been questioned. In Refereeing Identity, Michael Buma examines the ways in which the hockey novel genre attempts to reassure readers that "threatened" traditional Canadian and masculine identities still thrive on the ice. In a period of perceived crisis and flux, hockey novels offer readers the comforting familiarity of earlier times when the game was synonymous with Canada and men were defined by their physical strength. This comprehensive study of Canadian hockey novels draws on history, sport sociology, and literary criticism to challenge assumptions and stereotypes about identity. With the return of the Winnipeg Jets refuelling hockey nationalism and the public debate over hockey violence intensifying, Refereeing Identity is a timely and incisive account of how the game is represented - and misrepresented - in Canadian society.

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