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<p><P>Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family - as they appear in hockey fiction.</p><P>Blake examines the work of such authors as Mordecai Richler, David Adams Richards, Paul Quarrington, and Richard B. Wright, arguing that a study of contemporary hockey fiction exposes a troubled relationship with the national sport. Rather than the storybook happy ending common in sports literature of previous generations, Blake finds that today's fiction portrays hockey as an often-glorified sport that in fact leads to broken lives and ironic outlooks. The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, <b>Canadian Hockey Literature</b> is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime.</p></p>

Author

Jason Blake

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802097132

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Literary Criticism