Invisible Ball of Dreams
«" Rutter may be said to create her own archive at a secondary level. She brings together a body of material not previously linked and constructs effective means by which to read it. Invisible Ball of Dreams is an important contribution to black cultural and literary history." — ALH Online Review, XIX.1»
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. Les mer
Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University Press of Mississippi
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781496817129
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«" Rutter may be said to create her own archive at a secondary level. She brings together a body of material not previously linked and constructs effective means by which to read it. Invisible Ball of Dreams is an important contribution to black cultural and literary history." — ALH Online Review, XIX.1»