Bodies Built for Game
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Bodies Built for Game by Natalie Diaz
Brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, this book challenges America by questioning its games.
"Natalie Diaz, along with associate editor Hannah Ensor, has provided another valuable collection of critical commentary on salient issues pertaining to identity and power structures in Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports WritingAs a celebrated poet and essayist as well as former professional female athlete in the American sports industry, Diaz (Mojave), is an excellent authority on these themes."—Tara Keegan, American Indian Quarterly
Natalie Diaz is an associate professor of English and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec and of the forthcoming book Post Colonial Love Poem. In 2018 she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Hannah Ensor is the assistant director of the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Love Dream with Television.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781496217738 |
| ISBN 10 | 149621773X |
| Title | Bodies Built for Game |
| Author | Natalie Diaz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2019-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 402 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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