Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing

by Ada Limon and Shann Ray

Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens's four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149621773X
• ISBN13: 9781496217738
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"