Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels

by Michael Buma

Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been exported to the US and traditional gender assumptions in hockey have increasingly been questioned. In Refereeing Identity, Michael Buma examines the ways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773539883
• ISBN13: 9780773539884
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"