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Here's Lisa Timpf's review of <i>Hockey on the Moon.</i></div>
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<i>Lisa Timpf</i></div>
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<b><i>Dopp, Jamie, Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game</i></b></div>
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<i>Dopp, Jamie, Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game. Athabasca, Alberta: AU Press, 2024. 330 pages; Index</i></div>
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<i>Reviewed by Lisa Timpf</i></div>
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<i>In Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game, Jamie Dopp examines the way hockey, and its role in Canadian culture, have been depicted through songs, poems, and works of fiction. Each chapter in Hockey on the Moon is devoted to a specific work or
set of works, and these are drawn from different points in Canada’s history.</i></div>
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<i>While some of the works or authors were familiar to me—Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “The Hockey Song,” Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes, or Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater,” for example—others were not.</i></div>
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<i>Dopp devotes a chapter to Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, a collection of poetry by Randall Maggs. Night Work explores the life of Terry Sawchuk, “one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history.” (p. 250)</i></div>
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<i>Dopp also discusses brief references to hockey in Ralph Connors’ Glengarry School Days, published in 1902. This novel, Dopp says, contains “the earliest extended description of a hockey game in Canadian literature.” (p. 33)</i></div>
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<i>Some of the books discussed contain mystic or spiritual elements. The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston depicts a 19-year-old who keeps seeing his father’s ghost carrying a hockey puck or doing something hockey-related. In this novel, hockey serves as “a gateway
to the underworld.” (p. 166) The Good Body by Bill Gaston explores “the relationship between religion and hockey,” (p. 211) through the principles of Buddhism.</i></div>
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<i>Some of the works, particularly the early ones, reinforce and support the “hockey myth.” Others are critical of it, and of the Faustian bargains athletes sometimes make in order to secure fame.</i></div>
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<i>Some chapters, based on the works they comment on, discuss the immigrant experience, and how becoming a hockey player was seen as a path to becoming a “good Canadian.” Scott Young’s novels Scrubs on Skates, Boy on Defense, and A Boy at the Leafs’ Camp and
Roy MacGregor’s The Last Season are cases in point. The Last Season features protagonist Felix Batterinski, an “NHL goon in the 1970s.” (p. 118) Both Batterinski and Bill Spunska of Young’s novels are “big hard-hitting defensemen from Polish-immigrant families.”
(p. 119) The Last Season, Dopp notes, underscores “how difficult it is to separate the ‘beauty’ of hockey from its ‘ugliness’.” (p. 127)</i></div>
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<i>Hockey on the Moon explores both what is said and what is left unsaid in the novels, poems, and stories. As Dopp notes, in the early years particularly the stories largely focussed on male heroes, with women and Indigenous people often portrayed in stereotypical
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<i>Counter-balancing this tendency, Dopp includes chapters on Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles and Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse. Twenty Miles “uses the ‘voices and stories’ of players and coaches from the University of Manitoba Bison Women’s Hockey Team, of which
Hedley was a member from 1997 to 2000.” (p. 231) Indian Horse features protagonist Saul Indian Horse, an Objiway (Anishinaabe) boy from northern Ontario, “who is separated from his family and sent to a residential school run by the Catholic Church.” (p. 274)
Here, Saul is introduced to hockey, quickly revealing himself to be a “prodigy on skates.” (p. 274) The novel explores the way Saul’s rise as a hockey star is “hindered—and then halted—by racism in the sport.” (p. 274)</i></div>
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<i>Throughout Hockey on the Moon, Dopp shows a wide-ranging, in-depth knowledge of Canadian culture. In each chapter, he places the works within social and historical contexts. Dopp also connects sport literature to literature more broadly, as, for example,
in the chapter about Paul Quarrington’s King Leary, which, in addition to echoing aspects of “King” Clancy’s career, has parallels to Shakespeare’s King Lear.</i></div>
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<i>The notion of “muscular Christianity,” the ethos of hockey, hockey culture including the unwritten rules around the hockey fight, and hockey’s co-option as a national symbol for Canada are all discussed, as are differences in the way hockey’s popularity
and perception manifested in French versus English Canada.</i></div>
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<i>Dopp’s examination of the works in question is deep, insightful, and thought-provoking. One chapter, for example, is devoted to Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater,” which Dopp describes as “perhaps the most well-known text about hockey in Canada.” (p. 87)
When I started reading this chapter, I wondered how much there is to say about a relatively short, albeit entertaining, children’s story. In that, I underestimated Dopp.</i></div>
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<i>Hockey on the Moon examines “The Hockey Sweater” in relation to Carrier’s other books and short stories, as well as providing the context of French-English relationships, Catholic versus Protestant tensions, and feelings about Montreal Canadiens’ great Rocket
Richard, among other factors. Dopp provides background on the original short story collection that “The Hockey Sweater” appeared in. “If you read the story in French, in its original context, a different story emerges,” (p. 95) Dopp notes. Providing a deeper
appreciation of the nuances underlying Carrier’s story, this chapter was one of my favorites.</i></div>
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<i>Hockey on the Moon led me to think more deeply about hockey and its place in Canadian culture. As a teenager in the 1970s, I followed the fortunes of the Montreal Canadiens, as much as was possible for someone living in Ontario where television coverage
tended to focus on the rival Toronto Maple Leafs. I longed for the opportunity to play the sport, even if it did not seem particularly welcoming to women at the time. Hockey on the Moon provided a framework for understanding why I experienced that feeling
of unwelcomeness.</i></div>
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<i>Engagingly written, thorough, and thought-provoking, this book has much to offer for readers intereste<span style="display: inline-block;" class="_Entity _EType_OWALink _EId_OWALink _EReadonly_1"><span><a href="https://ashlanduniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/djamieso_ashland_edu/EbqiyJkuZCxDmJ6M2eqc89EBxHhhBDEXw4F9Z_AytQNWuQ?xsdata=MDV8MDJ8c3BvcnRfbGl0ZXJhdHVyZV9hc3NvY2lhdGlvbkBsaXN0cy5rdS5lZHV8NjgyOTAzN2UxM2VkNGNjOWE1MTQwOGRkODMzOWY1NDh8M2MxNzY1MzZhZmU2NDNmNWI5NjYzNmZlYWJiZTNjMWF8MHwwfDYzODgxMTAwNzE5OTQzMjEyNnxVbmtub3dufFRXRnBiR1pzYjNkOGV5SkZiWEIwZVUxaGNHa2lPblJ5ZFdVc0lsWWlPaUl3TGpBdU1EQXdNQ0lzSWxBaU9pSlhhVzR6TWlJc0lrRk9Jam9pVFdGcGJDSXNJbGRVSWpveWZRPT18MHx8fA%3d%3d&sdata=WEk3UkhEaWNiMElwcmhydVNPOHNZKy9XNElKNG1PUDZ0YzBseHFzVndqVT0%3d" originalSrc="https://ashlanduniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/djamieso_ashland_edu/EbqiyJkuZCxDmJ6M2eqc89EBxHhhBDEXw4F9Z_AytQNWuQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="padding: 0px 1px; border-radius: 2px; user-select: all; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 241);" id="OLK_Beautified_c72c3d8c-b0f5-898e-675c-44883665f4b3" class="OWAAutoLink eScj0 none" data-ogsc="" data-loopstyle="linkonly"><img style="width: 16px; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 1px 2px 2px 0px;" class="suRDx" alt="" role="presentation" src="https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/assets/mail/file-icon/png/docx_16x16.png">hockey
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