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French Rugby Football - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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French Rugby Football - A Cultural History (Paperback)
Series: Berg French Studies Series
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As France's oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its
125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This
book analyzes for the first time the complex variety of motives
that have led the French to adopt and remake this rather unlikely
British sport in their own image. A major site for the construction
of masculine, class-based regional and national identities,
France's tradition of 'Champagne rugby' continues to be as subject
to dramatic upheavals as the society that produced it. The game's
precocious professionalism and endemic violence have not
infrequently caused the French to be cast as international pariahs.
Such isolation, exacerbated by internal politics, has led the
French not only to encourage the extension of the sport beyond its
British imperial base (into Italy and Romania, for instance), but
also to engage in some uncomfortable tactical alliances, most
obviously with apartheid South Africa.
Taking his analysis both on and off the field, the author tackles
these issues and much more: the relationship of sport and the state
(including particularly the Vichy period and the period under de
Gaulle); professionalization; the persistence of colonial and
postcolonial structures (including the role of ethnic minorities);
and gender issues - especially masculine identities. At the same
time he links the evolution of the sport to the broader context of
French socio-economic, political and cultural history.
This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the
cultural analysis of sport or French popular culture.
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