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| adam_text | CHRISTIAN K MESSENGER
Sport and the Spirit of Play
in Contemporary
American Fiction
Columbia University Press
New York
Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction I
The Play Spirit 3
A Structural Semantics for Sports Fiction 10
Mapping the Arena 12
Describing and Animating the Quadrants 16
Parti
Individual Sports Heroism: Male Physical
Self-Definition 27
1 The Decline of the Ritual Sports Hero 29
Dickey and Concealment 36
McGuane and Exposure 42
V l l
CONTENTS
Fee ding the Ape: Mailer and the Bad Death of Ernest
Hemingway 46
2 Mailer: The Body as Arena 51
Father and Son Days: Ritual Sport and Sacrifice in Why
Are We in Vietnam? 55
Mapping Mailer s Arena 60
Killer Brothers for the Team 65
3 Mailer: Boxing and the Art of His Narrative 69
The Enormous Present 71
The Bad Death of Benny Paret 75
The Carnage of An American Dream 78
Passivity and Working the Corners: Mailer and Ali 85
4 Fictions of Boxing 95
Ring-Masters 95
Youth and Age 97
Predator and Prey 105
The Great White Hope 113
Part II
Individual Sports Heroism: Responses of the
Play Spirit 123
5 Play, Sacrifice, Performance: Kesey and Coover 125
The Dynamics of Ritual and Play: Kesey s One Flew Over
the Cuckoo s Nest 126
Ritual and Play: The Good Death of McMurphy 129
Ritual Sport and Play: Sometimes A Great Notion 135
Ritual Performance: The Public Burning 145
Conclusion 150
6 Women in Sports Narrative: The Strategies of Mimicry 154
The Strategy of Mimicry 15 5
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Re-Gendered 161
Vlll
CONTENTS
The Hotel New Hampshire: Tough Girls at Play 163
Personal Best: Nurture and Competition 168
Water Dancer The Multiples of Touch 175
Conclusion 185
7 The Decline of the School Sports Hero 192
The Last Amateurs 194
The Sacrifice of the Natural 200
A Separate Peace 201
The Huge Season 204
Conclusion 208
8 Anti-Heroism: The Witness at the Center 210
Heroes and Witnesses: A Brief Literary History 212
Fleeing the School as Arena: The Witness On the Road 217
The Field of Vision: Witnessing and Reader Response 221
A Fan s Notes 224
Goodbye, Columbus: Suburban Games 229
Brenda Patimkin: School Sports Heroine 232
Ron Patimkin and Neil Klugman: School Sports Hero
and Witness 236
The Sportswriter: Epiphanies without Cause 239
Conclusion 244
Part III
Collective Sports Heroism: Fictions of Team Sport 249
9 Fictions of Football: Between the Lines 251
The Team Sports Hero: A Man for Our Season 252
Between the Lines 254
Field Structure and Symbolism 258
Football as Education: The School Sports Story 262
Football and the Configuration of the Body 267
The Texas Connection 271
Dan Jenkins and Texas Triumphant 275
Dallas, 11/22/63: Why Are We Playing? • 280
IX
CONTENTS
The Professional Plot 282
Peter Gent: The Professional and Pain 286
The Franchise: The Professional and Control 290
10 Fictions of Football: Why We Are Playing 294
Gloomy Gus: Football Aestheticized 295
Joiner Football Historicized 298
End Zone: Football, Nuclear War, Language 302
The Collision of Differences 305
Conclusion 313
11 Fictions of Baseball: Baseball and Passages 315
Creating the Field/Book 319
Coming Home: Fathers and Sons 322
Baseball and Education 328
Harris: The Education of Henry Wiggen 331
Baseball and Myth 334
Malamud: The Passion of Roy Hobbs 336
Coover: The Diamond Alive in the Sun 341
12 Fictions of Baseball: Baseball Historicized 346
Contextualizing the Passages 346
Benign Myth and Demonic Reality: Roth s The Great
American Novel 353
Coover: Baseball and Metahistory 357
Exile and Exclusion: Blacks and Baseball History 362
Neugeboren and Charyn: Counterhistories 366
Expansion Draft: Baseball Fiction 1980-88 371
13 Fictions of Basketball 387
Basketball s Arena: The Playground 389
Basketball and the Black Experience 395
I Have My Game: The Pursuit of Upward Space 403
Upward Space: Updike s Rabbit Trilogy 407
Conclusion 417
CONTENTS
Conclusion • 419
Notes 429
Bibliography 443
Primary Works Cited 443
Secondary Works Cited 453
Index 459
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