Canada's Game
Hockey and Identity
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2009
236 pages
978-0-7735-7591-2 (ISBN)
Description
Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen''s University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Introduction: Canada's Game? Hockey and the Problem of Identity
- PART ONE: COMMUNITY, REGION, NATION: HOCKEY AND THE CONTEXTS OF IDENTITY
- 1 Big Liners and Beer Gardens: The Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the Selection Controversy Surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team
- 2 Are Americans Really Hockey's Villains? A New Perspective on the American Influence on Canada's National Game
- 3 Confronting a Compelling Other: The Summit Series and the Nostalgic (Trans)Formation of Canadian Identity
- PART TWO: FORGING IDENTITY THROUGH FICTION
- 4 "Just part of the game": Depictions of Violence in Hockey Prose
- 5 Win Orr Lose: Searching for the Good Canadian Kid in Canadian Hockey Fiction
- 6 The Mystery of a Canadian Father of Hockey Stories: Leslie McFarlane's Break Away from the Hardy Boys
- PART THREE: BUYING AND SELLING IDENTITIES: HOCKEY AS COMMODITY
- 7 "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the Metropolitan": Professional Hockey Spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto
- 8 Between a Puck and a Showpiece: Spectator Sport and the Differing Responses to Hockey (and Its Absence) in Canada and the United States - A Canadian Poet Looks at the Fate of the Game
- 9 Forever Proud? The Montreal Canadiens' Transition from the Forum to the Molson Centre
- 10 Manufacturing Players and Controlling Sports: An Interpretation of the Political Economy of Hockey and the 2004 NHL Lockout
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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