Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis

by PHILLIPS, MURRAY G.; Munslow, Alun

• ISBN13: 9780791466100
• ISBN10: 0791466108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the present. Encompassing a wide range of critical approaches, leading international sport historians reflect on theory, practice, and the future of sport history. They survey the field of sport history since its inception, examine the principles that have governed the production of knowledge in sport history, and address the central concerns raised by the postmodern challenge to history. Sharing a common desire to critique contemporary practices in sport history, the contributors raise the level of critical analysis of the production of historical knowledge, provide examples of approaches by those who have struggled with or adapted to the postmodern challenge, and open up new avenues for future sport historians to follow.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Alun Munslow
Introduction: Sport History and Postmodernism	1	(26)
Murray G. Phillips
PART ONE: ON THEORY
Sport Historians: What Do We Do? How Do We Do It?	27	(28)
Douglas Booth
Sport History between the Modern and Postmodern	55	(20)
Brett Hutchins
A Linguistic Turn into Sport History	75	(20)
Michael Oriard
PART TWO: ON PRACTICE
Partial Knowledge: Photographic Mystifications and Constructions of ``The African Athlete''	95	(22)
John Bale
Anecdotal Evidence: Sport, the Newspaper Press, and History	117	(14)
Jeffrey Hill
Wasn't It Ironic? The Haxey Hood and the Great War	131	(16)
Catriona M. Parratt
Decentering ``Race'' and (Re)presenting ``Black'' Performance in Sport History: Basketball and Jazz in American Culture, 1920--1950	147	(34)
S. W. Pope
PART THREE: ON THE FUTURE
Beyond Traditional Sports Historiography: Toward a Historical ``Holograph''	181	(22)
Robert E. Rinehart
Contact with God, Body, and Soul: Sport History and the Radical Orthodoxy Project	203	(24)
Synthia Sydnor
Time Gentlemen Please: The Space and Place of Gender in Sport History	227	(18)
Patricia Vertinsky
Conclusion	245	(10)
Murray G. Phillips
List of Contributors	255	(4)
Index	259	(6)
SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations	265