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Fields of play: Sport Literature and culture

By: Poonam Trivedi and others

Contributor(s): TRIVEDI (Poonam) ed

| CHAUDHURI (Supriya) ed

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New Delhi Orient Blackswan Pvt.Ltd 2015Description: ix,308 p. HB 21x13 cmISBN: 9788125057550Subject(s): Sport and Literature

DDC classification: 796.0954 Summary: The book is a collection of essays discussing the various aspects of sports in India. Apart from discussing the present status of the different sports and sporting formats, the essays also discuss the institutions attached to sports. At the same time, the essays also discuss the factors that make up the sport: the body cultures involved in various sports and corporeality in computer games. The book shows the strong sporting culture present in the Indian society through discussing the intimate relation between sports, literature and cinema, as depicted in books and movies like Harry Potter series and Iqbal respectively. This book will leave a mark on all, especially people interested in sports. List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poonam Trivedi Part I: Sporting Cultures 1. Delhi Commons: A Public Art Project on the Commonwealth Games Iram Ghufran 2. The Indian Premier League and the Future of Indian Cricket Boria Majumdar 3. Sporting Legacies in India: Mohun Bagan’s 1911 Football Victory versus Olympic Hockey Medals Novy Kapadia Part II: Sport and Literature 4. Other Histories: Modernity, Literature and Football in India Supriya Chaudhuri 5. Sport, Surveillance and Speed in The Hunger Games Trilogy Sanam Khanna 6. Quidditch Incorporated: Sport, Fantasy and the Consumer Child Paromita Patranobish 7. In the Long Run: The Modernist Experience as Long Distance Running Sohini Banerjee 8. The New Girl and the British School Story Aishwarya Subramanian Part III: Sporting Bodies 9. The Expressive Body: Notes on Individualism and Solitude in Sport Maitri Baruah 10. Refugee City: Football and Other Divides of the Self in Post-Partition Kolkata Debjani Sengupta 11. The Matter that Matters—Re-thinking Corporeality in a Computer Game Aratrika Das Part IV: Sport and Cinema 12. Shoonya (The Zero Zone, 2007) Arindam Mitra Playing Fair, Playing for Money: A Note 221on the Film Shoonya Poonam Trivedi 13. The Underdog Bowling to the Cultural Field in Kukunoor’s Iqbal Anas Tabraiz 14. The Gender Games: A Study of Chak De! India and Meerabai Not Out Mithuraaj Dhusiya

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	St Aloysius College (Autonomous)	Others	796.0954 TRIF (Browse shelf)	Available		076002

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The book is a collection of essays discussing the various aspects of sports in India. Apart from discussing the present status of the different sports and sporting formats, the essays also discuss the institutions attached to sports. At the same time, the essays also discuss the factors that make up the sport: the body cultures involved in various sports and corporeality in computer games. The book shows the strong sporting culture present in the Indian society through discussing the intimate relation between sports, literature and cinema, as depicted in books and movies like Harry Potter series and Iqbal respectively. This book will leave a mark on all, especially people interested in sports.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Poonam Trivedi

Part I: Sporting Cultures
1. Delhi Commons: A Public Art Project on the Commonwealth Games
Iram Ghufran
2. The Indian Premier League and the Future of Indian Cricket
Boria Majumdar
3. Sporting Legacies in India: Mohun Bagan’s 1911 Football Victory versus Olympic Hockey Medals
Novy Kapadia

Part II: Sport and Literature
4. Other Histories: Modernity, Literature and Football in India
Supriya Chaudhuri
5. Sport, Surveillance and Speed in The Hunger Games Trilogy
Sanam Khanna
6. Quidditch Incorporated: Sport, Fantasy and the Consumer Child
Paromita Patranobish
7. In the Long Run: The Modernist Experience as Long Distance Running
Sohini Banerjee
8. The New Girl and the British School Story
Aishwarya Subramanian

Part III: Sporting Bodies
9. The Expressive Body: Notes on Individualism and Solitude in Sport
Maitri Baruah
10. Refugee City: Football and Other Divides of the Self in Post-Partition Kolkata
Debjani Sengupta
11. The Matter that Matters—Re-thinking Corporeality in a Computer Game
Aratrika Das

Part IV: Sport and Cinema
12. Shoonya (The Zero Zone, 2007)
Arindam Mitra
Playing Fair, Playing for Money: A Note 221on the Film Shoonya
Poonam Trivedi
13. The Underdog Bowling to the Cultural Field in Kukunoor’s Iqbal
Anas Tabraiz
14. The Gender Games: A Study of Chak De! India and Meerabai Not Out
Mithuraaj Dhusiya

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