From: "John Bale" <eda38-AT-educ.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Poco and Sport
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:04:51 +0100


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Anne
Thanks for this message. It so happens that Mike Cronin of De Montfort University in England and I are co-editing a book of essays on Sport and Postclonialism. There seems to be something of a belated show of interest!
I'm interested in your collection for Kunapipi. What is your deadline for submissions? length of appers?

Sincerely

John
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  From: Anne Collett
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:36 AM
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  John,
  Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing (of which I am co-editor with Anna Rutherford) is planning a special edition on 'postcolonial sport' for the first issue of 2001. We would like contributions from as wide a field as possible (both in terms of sport and country). If you have not come across the journal, it was one of the first english-language journals devoted to 'commonwealth' writing (both critical and creative) and is associated with the European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Study. It has moved this year from a Denmark/UK base to Australia. 
  Dave Whitson has recently given an interesting paper on the relationship between globalization of sport (the notion of 'world class') and postcolonial resistance. It will be published in Australian Canadian STudies (due out any time now).
  Anne Collett
  English Studies Program
  University of Wollongong
  Australia

  John Bale wrote:

    A number of works - notably CLR James but also a number of literary studies people like Grant Farred, Ian Baucom, Simon Gikandi and the contributors to _Liberation Cricket_ - can be read as postcolonial works on sport. Cricket seems to be the main sport addressed via a post colonial lens. Frantz Fanon also made various allusions to sport. Of course, it's totally missing from the works of the 'holy trinity' despite its immense significance in colonization and imperialism.Compared with literature, dance and music sport as a form of culture appears rather neglected from a postcolonial perspective. Perhaps sports - with their globalized rules and regulations and their overwhelming conservative ideology - simply do not provide the space for resistance. One has to go 'beyond the boundary', beyond actions that are licensed, to engage in resistance.Neither does there appear to be much written that attempts to excavate colonial writing on pre-colonial 'sport-like' activities, despite, for example, the almost ubiquitous allusions to, say, wrestling in much colonial travel writing on Africa.Does anyone know of any paper-length (or any other) work on 'Sport and Postcolonialism' other than the Caribbean and Asian material on cricket? Cheers John Bale+++++++++++++++++++++++
    John Bale
    Department of Education
    Keele University
    Keele
    Staffordshire
    ST5  5BG
    UK Phone: 01782 583117
    Fax: 01782 583555
    Email: eda38-AT-keele.ac.uk
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----- Original Message -----

From: Anne Collett

To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:36 AM

Subject: Re: Poco and Sport

John,
Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing (of which I am co-editor with Anna Rutherford) is planning a special edition on 'postcolonial sport' for the first issue of 2001. We would like contributions from as wide a field as possible (both in terms of sport and country). If you have not come across the journal, it was one of the first english-language journals devoted to 'commonwealth' writing (both critical and creative) and is associated with the European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Study. It has moved this year from a Denmark/UK base to Australia. 
Dave Whitson has recently given an interesting paper on the relationship between globalization of sport (the notion of 'world class') and postcolonial resistance. It will be published in Australian Canadian STudies (due out any time now).

Anne Collett
English Studies Program
University of Wollongong
Australia

John Bale wrote:

A number of works - notably CLR James but also a number of literary studies people like Grant Farred, Ian Baucom, Simon Gikandi and the contributors to _Liberation Cricket_ - can be read as postcolonial works on sport. Cricket seems to be the main sport addressed via a post colonial lens. Frantz Fanon also made various allusions to sport. Of course, it's totally missing from the works of the 'holy trinity' despite its immense significance in colonization and imperialism.Compared with literature, dance and music sport as a form of culture appears rather neglected from a postcolonial perspective. Perhaps sports - with their globalized rules and regulations and their overwhelming conservative ideology - simply do not provide the space for resistance. One has to go 'beyond the boundary', beyond actions that are licensed, to engage in resistance.Neither does there appear to be much written that attempts to excavate colonial writing on pre-colonial 'sport-like' activities, despite, for example, the almost ubiquitous allusions to, say, wrestling in much colonial travel writing on Africa.Does anyone know of any paper-length (or any other) work on 'Sport and Postcolonialism' other than the Caribbean and Asian material on cricket? Cheers John Bale+++++++++++++++++++++++
John Bale
Department of Education
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5  5BG
UK Phone: 01782 583117
Fax: 01782 583555
Email: eda38-AT-keele.ac.uk
+++++++++++++++++++++++++