Invisible ball of dreams : literary representations of baseball behind the color line /

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"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), bla...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rutter, Emily Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Subjects:
African Americans in literature.
Baseball in literature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Base-ball dans la littérature.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Archival interventions: black baseball and imaginative literature
  • The first wave. Shadow archives, white saviors, and magical negroes: representations of black baseball in the 1970s
  • I was born too quick?: Archival contributions and limitations in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
  • Black baseball novels and white redemption
  • The second wave. It was ours?: black-authored representations of baseball behind the color line
  • Black baseball's archive of cultural nationalist feeling
  • Let's play two?: The affective resonances of black baseball in African American poetry
  • The third wave. Reconfigurations of the archive in contemporary black baseball literature
  • Crossing the color line in Mark Winegardner's The Veracruz Blues and Kevin King's All the Stars Came Out That Night
  • Educating the next generation: Black baseball children's books
  • Coda. An archive of feelings revisited: Fences on screen.

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