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Writing the Body in Motion A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature

edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp

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Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts. The contributions sketch the state of current scholarship, highlight recurring themes and patterns, and offer close readings of key works. Organized chronologically by source text, ranging from Shoeless Joe (1982) to Indian Horse (2012), the essays offer a variety of ways to read, consider, teach, and write about sport literature.

With contributions by Jason Blake, Laura K. Davis, Cara Hedley, Paul Martin, Fred Mason, Sam McKegney, Gyllian Phillips, Trevor J. Phillips, and Cory Willard.

A game changer! An essential book for all teachers, students, and readers of sports literature. You will gain a much deeper understanding of the physical, emotional, and cultural complexities of sport. You will also gain keen insights into the attraction of sport to authors as a subject worthy of the most complex and affecting creative writing. Priscila Uppal, author of Winter Sport: Poems and Summer Sport: Poems

Abdou and Dopp’s Writing the Body in Motion gathers the voices of some of the finest scholars of Canadian sport literature, where they critically interrogate the field’s classic (and soon-to-be classic) texts. The collection is fresh and insightful and, above all, useful. This book will be a sturdy backbone for a new generation of scholars teaching and writing about sport and its many meanings in Canadian letters. Andrew Holman, editor of Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity

About the Editors

Angie Abdou is assistant professor of creative writing at Athabasca University and a regular book reviewer for Quill and Quire . She has published one short story collection and four novels. Her first novel, The Bone Cage , was a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011, defended by NHL star Georges Laraque. The novel was included on Canadian Literature magazine’s “All-Time Top Ten List of Best Canadian Sport Literature” and topped the CBC Book Club’s list of Top 10 Sport Books. Jamie Dopp is associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria, where he has taught a course in hockey and literature for a number of years. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and scholarly articles have appeared in many journals. He has published two collections of poetry and a novel and in 2009, he co-edited a collection of essays with Richard Harrison called Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey .

A collection of essays that is relevant to the lives of readers who can see themselves anew through the challenges of sport and movement. […] Many readers will find themselves making a beelines for the booksellers to purchase gems in the Canadian sport literature canon they have discovered by reading this fascinating anthology. —BC Studies

An essential contribution to the field––one which activates our own sensory explorations, whereby the boundaries between self and other begin to erode and possibilities of connection arise.” —Canadian Literature

In reading these essays, the reader grasps why sport makes for a lush, literary field for a writer to play on––the reader has a need to be astonished, to believe in magic, the need to see the incredible.” —Avenue Edmonton

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Angie Abdou
• 1. W. P. Kinsella’s  Shoeless Joe : The Fairy Tale, the Hero’s Quest, and the Magic Realism of Baseball / Fred Mason
• 2. The Myth of Hockey and Identity in Paul Quarrington’s  King Leary / Cara Hedley
• 3. Hockey, Humour, and Play in Wayne Johnston’s  The Divine Ryans / Jason Blake
• 4. The Poetry of Hockey in Richard Harrison’s  Hero of the Play / Paul Martin
• 5. Glaciers, Embodiment, and the Sublime: An Ecocritical Approach to Thomas Wharton’s  Icefields / Cory Willard
• 6. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s  The Good Body / Jamie Dopp
• 7. The Darkening Path: The Hero-Athlete Reconsidered in Angie Abdou’s  The Bone Cage / Gyllian Phillips
• 8. “Open the door to the roaring darkness”: The Enigma of Terry Sawchuk in Randall Maggs’s  Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems / Paul Martin
• 9. From Tank to Deep Water: Myth and History in Samantha Warwick’s  Sage Island / Jamie Dopp
• 10. Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod’s “Miracle Mile” / Laura K. Davis
• 11. Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese’s  Indian Horse / Sam McKegney and Trevor J. Phillips
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Dr. Angie Abdou

Associate Professor, Creative Writing

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Current courses

• ENGL 353: Intermediate Composition
• ENGL 380: Writing Poetry
• ENGL 381: Creative Writing in Prose
• ENGL 384: Writing Creative Non-fiction
• ENGL 387: Writing Speculative Fiction
• ENGL 481: Writing the Body in Motion: Canadian Sport Literature
• ENGL 482: Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENGL 491: Directed Studies in Literature
• ENGL 492: The Work of Research, Writing, and Publishing: Special Project
• MAIS 617: Creative Non-Fiction

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Angie Abdou holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from University of Calgary and has published seven books (and edited two collections of essays). Her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2011. Her most recent novel, In Case I Go (2017), was a finalist for the 2017 Banff Mountain Book Award in the fiction and poetry category. Of In Case I Go, Vancouver Sun says: “A spectacularly successful novel. This book is highly recommended to anyone who cares about strong, moving fiction and about social justice.” Chatelaine Magazine named it one of 2017’s most riveting mystery novels. Angie's first book of nonfiction, a memoir called Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom, was featured on CBC’s Sunday Edition and CTV’s The Social. It hit the Canadian bestseller list and the #1 spot on Amazon Canada’s bestselling hockey books. Of Home Ice, a starred review in New York’s Booklist claims: “The book is a first-rate memoir and a fine example of narrative nonfiction. It's also a must-read for parents with youngsters who play organized sports.” She recently released a mother-daughter-wilderness memoir called This One Wild Life. Marni Jackson says: “This One Wild Life is written with great honesty, insight, and love. Nature needs more friends (and mothers) like Angie Abdou!” Angie Abdou is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University.

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• Sport Literature
• Canadian Literature
• Creative Nonfiction

Educational credentials

• 2009 Doctor of Philosophy (English, Creative Writing Option), University of Calgary
• 2003 Creative Writing Post-Graduate Certificate, Humber College
• 1992 Masters of Arts (English Literature), University of Western Ontario
• 1991 Honours Bachelor of Arts, with Honours in English, University of Regina

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• Writers’ Union of Canada
• Sport Literature Association
• Columnist CBC's Daybreak Alberta, book reviews
• Columnist and book reviewer CBC's The Next Chapter
• Host for BOOKED!

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Book length publications.

• This One Wild Life. Toronto: ECW Press, 2021.
• Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom. Toronto: ECW Press, 2018.
• Writing the Body in Motion: An A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature. Edmonton: AU Press, 2018.
• In Case I Go (a novel). Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017.
• Between (a novel). Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014.
• The Canterbury Trail (a novel). Victoria: Brindle & Glass Press, 2011.
• The Bone Cage (a novel). Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2007.
• Anything Boys Can Do (a short-story collection). Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2006.

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