Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists,
cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have
recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to
Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about
race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic
investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural
resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new
light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are
nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from
neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways
in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of
mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such
diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin
and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and
Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how
and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
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