Sporting lives
Subtitle: metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies
By: James W. Pipkin.
Series: Sports and American culture series
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780826217790
Subjects: Athletes -- United States -- Biography.; Autobiographies -- United States.; Sports -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The echoing green"; title: Body songs; title: Magic : the performing body; title: The end of autumn; title: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" : Dennis Rodman and the contemporary athlete as postmodern celebrity.