[ARETE] Book announcement

[Rebecca Wines]

 Dear SLA list administrators,
Could you please post the following message to the listserv?  The book may
interest folks and I think there are a couple of other SLA members among
the volume's contributors, too.  Thank you!
Have a wonderful holiday and take care,
Rebecca


Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to share that our edited volume *Pour le sport: Physical
Culture in French and Francophone Literature* has been published by
Liverpool University Press.  The studies in this volume examine aspects of
physical culture--including not only sport in the modern sense but also
athletic activities that preceded or are related to it, such as bodily
forms of exercise and leisure--as represented in literature written in
French from Europe and around the Francophone world.  Our essays pursue
diverse interpretive approaches and focus on texts from a wide variety of
periods (medieval to the present) and genres (short stories, novels,
essays, poetry) in order to consider the fundamental place of physical
activities in literature and culture from the French-speaking world.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Roxanna Curto and Rebecca Wines

*Part I Physical Activities and Games Prior to the Twentieth Century*

1 Avatars of Sport in Medieval and Early Modern French Literature by John
McClelland

2 Are Mountaineers Romantics? The Art of Viewing and Climbing in
Nineteenth-Century France by Pierre-Olaf Schut

3 ‘Tennis Killed Me’: Sport as Failed Ritual in the Works of Prosper
Mérimée by Corry Cropper

*Part II The Tour de France*

4 Henri Desgrange, Cycling, and Modern Masculinities by Rebecca Wines

5 Barthes, Blondin, and the Tour de France of the Trente Glorieuses by
Ruadhán Cooke

*Part III The Stylistics of Running and Writing*

6 Dominique Braga’s Literary Stride by Thomas Bauer

7 Communism, Bio-Fiction, and the Olympics in Jean Echenoz’s *Courir *by
Roxanna Curto

*Part IV Football Cultures*

8 ‘She has a great shot!’: Representations of Sport and Gender in the
French Book Series *Le Petit Nicolas* by Cynthia Laborde

9 Kourat el Kadem: Soccer Culture in Postcolonial Francophone Algerian
Texts by Christa Jones

10 ‘The Gaze Always Finds Zidane’: Aesthetics and Overdetermination in
Toussaint, Delbée, and Gordon and Parreno by Luke Healey

*Part V Civilization, Marginalization, and National Identities*

11 Reassessing Voivenel’s *Mon Beau Rugby* by Keith Rathbone

12 Corporeal Conceptions: Body Politics, French Republicanism, and Sport in
Banlieue Literature by Marshall L. Smith

13 Fighting as a Trope for Flight from Conflict: Combat Sports in *Le
Débrouillard* (N.G.M. Faye) and *L’Appel des arènes* (Aminata Sow Fall) by
Christopher Hogarth

Please go here <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk%2Fbooks%2Fid%2F55128%2F&data=04%7C01%7Csport_literature_association%40lists.ku.edu%7C2e05d0225766428867a808d9c40ff498%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637756395954706785%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=gx6h%2BSDOSI79lm9YlWhI0Cq4DDknkjeVlz5RYT0rjTM%3D&reserved=0>for
more details.  To receive a 30% discount for buying online, you can use the
code ADISTA5 in the US and LUP30 in the UK & RoW.

Best wishes,
Rebecca Wines and Roxanna Curto


-- 
Rebecca Wines
(she / her / elle)
Associate Professor of French
Chair, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
Co-chair, program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Cornell College

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