Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study

Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study

by Kathleen Sullivan
ISBN-10:
0786421703
ISBN-13:
9780786421701
Pub. Date:
06/08/2005
Publisher:
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10:
0786421703
ISBN-13:
9780786421701
Pub. Date:
06/08/2005
Publisher:
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study

Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study

by Kathleen Sullivan

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Overview

Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities of great athletes, as well as created original characters for sports stories. How have women fared in this literature?

Women Characters in Baseball Literature is the first comprehensive evaluation of the women characters of baseball literature, including women's crucial roles on and off the field of play. Applying several feminist theories and examining the works in the context of both myth and psychology, the author discusses baseball fiction written by both men and women. Among the topics discussed are the literary implications of motherhood; how patterns of behavior in women characters often recall Greek goddesses; and how women characters and the feminist imagination enrich the literature of this apparently masculinized sport. Authors covered include Bernard Malamud, Mark Harris, August Wilson, Lamar Herrin, Nancy Willard, Silvia Tennenbaum, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786421701
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 06/08/2005
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kathleen Sullivan is a lecturer at Richland College in Dallas, Texas. She also directs the honors program, honors study abroad, Phi Theta Kappa IHC courses, and learning communities at the college.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction: Taken Out of the Ballgame     
One: Mount Olympus in the Majors.     
Two: Gods and Goddesses at the Plate     
Three: Absent Mothers and Mothering Men     
Four: Substitute Mothering in The Southpaw and She’s on First     
Five: The Transformational Goddesses     
Six: The Compound Goddesses     

Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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