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Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature
This paper will examine moments in literature where the narratives of baseball as American myth and those involving African Americans converge, moments where authors confront (either consciously or not) the implications of both narratives within the same shared space. It is at these moments of conve...
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| author | Austen, Benjamin |
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| description | This paper will examine moments in literature where the narratives of baseball as American myth and those involving African Americans converge, moments where authors confront (either consciously or not) the implications of both narratives within the same shared space. It is at these moments of convergence that the mythic language surrounding the game and its interaction with African Americans are thrown into dramatic relief. A myth, says Roland Barthes in his Mythologies, is a kind of "metalanguage," a narrative which refers to and talks about another narrative; it is at least twice removed from any referent which exists in reality. "What is invested in the concept," writes Barthes, "is less reality than a certain knowledge of reality." Examining this space will reveal how myths operate and continue to affect an understanding of personal and national identities, especially since this space involves the intersection of the emblematic discourse of baseball with a black presence that appears to question the very tenets of established national memory. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/18419 Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature Austen, Benjamin Coetzee, John M Literary Studies This paper will examine moments in literature where the narratives of baseball as American myth and those involving African Americans converge, moments where authors confront (either consciously or not) the implications of both narratives within the same shared space. It is at these moments of convergence that the mythic language surrounding the game and its interaction with African Americans are thrown into dramatic relief. A myth, says Roland Barthes in his Mythologies, is a kind of "metalanguage," a narrative which refers to and talks about another narrative; it is at least twice removed from any referent which exists in reality. "What is invested in the concept," writes Barthes, "is less reality than a certain knowledge of reality." Examining this space will reveal how myths operate and continue to affect an understanding of personal and national identities, especially since this space involves the intersection of the emblematic discourse of baseball with a black presence that appears to question the very tenets of established national memory. 2016-03-30T14:47:31Z 2016-03-30T14:47:31Z 1997 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18419 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Literary Studies Austen, Benjamin Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| title_full | Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| title_fullStr | Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| title_short | Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature |
| title_sort | raceball african americans and myths of america in baseball literature |
| topic | Literary Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18419 |
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