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This narrative U.S. soccer's history and present-day status addresses the issues of socioeconomics. Emphasizing the differences between social classes in U.S. soccer past and present, as well as those between American soccer and international football, this work analyzes the role of class in American soccer's failure to carve out a more prominent place in the sports landscape. Contemporary soccer is explored from its beginnings in informal Parks and Recreation leagues to the development of formal club programs, and university, professional, and U.S. national teams. In recent decades, Hispanic leagues formed primarily by Mexican and Central American immigrants have reinforced the theme of a class-based, exclusionary space in U.S. soccer. A personal perspective based on the authors' experience coaching soccer at the informal level broadens the book's appeal.
Ishmael Reed has emerged as one of the most innovative and controversial novelists in contemporary African American literature. By focusing on his nine published novels, this volume charts the critical response to his works over time. The book is organized by decade, with each section containing book reviews and articles. Beginning with material from the 1960s, it explores Reed's concern with artistic freedom and examines the evolution of his Neo-HooDoo aesthetic, which combines satire and parody, comedy and fantasy, African and African American religion, and myth, history, film, and other forms of popular culture. It celebrates and at times criticizes how Reed's fiction defies popular academic conceptions of what American writers, particularly black American writers, ought to be. The book also includes a substantial introduction, a transcript of a recent conversation in which Reed discusses his novels in progress, and an extensive bibliography. Since the publication of his first novel, "The Free-Lance Pallbearers, " in 1967, Ishmael Reed has emerged as one of the most innovative and controversial African American writers. Despite his belief that he and other black male artists have been misrepresented and virtually ignored in the press, he has received more critical attention than almost any other contemporary African American male author. The majority of this criticism has studied Reed's literary innovations and what he once called his Neo-HooDoo aesthetic, which draws on satire and parody, comedy and fantasy, African and African American religion, and myth, history, film, and various other elements of popular culture. Since the 1970s, many articles and reviews have looked at his commitment to multiculturalism, while others have examined his views on gender and how they help define his position in the literary world. This volume chronicles the critical response to Reed's works. Organized by decades, the book centers primarily on Reed's nine published novels. It contains book reviews and essays devoted to these novels, as well as a recent interview in which Reed discusses his works in progress, including "Making a Killing, " a novel about the O.J. Simpson trial. While Reed has attained success as a poet and social critic, his novels continue to attract most of the attention. These include a science fiction fantasy, a western, two mysteries, a neo-slave narrative, two political parodies, a trickster tale about contemporary race and gender issues, and a satire on modern academia. The reaction to his works varies from ridicule and condemnation to respect and high praise. A substantial introduction overviews the response to his works, and a chronology lists the major events in his life and career. The volume concludes with extensive bibliographical information.
Among students and aficionados of contemporary literature, the work
of Latina and Latino poets holds a particular fascination. Through
works imbued with fire and passion, these writers have kindled new
enthusiasm in their compatriots and admiration in non-Latino
readers. This book brings together recent interviews with fifteen
Latino/a poets, a cross-section of Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban
voices who discuss not only their work but also related issues that
help define their place in American literature. Each talks at
length about the craft of his or her poetry--both the influences
and the process behind it--and takes a stand on social and
political issues affecting Latinos across the United States. The
interviews feature both established writers published as early as
the 1960s and emerging artists, each of whom has enjoyed success in
other literary forms also. As Bruce Dick's insightful questions
reveal, the key threads linking these writers are their connections
to their families and communities and their concern for civil
rights--believing like Chicana writer Pat Mora that "the work of
the poet is for the people." The interviews also reveal diversity
among and within the three communities, from Victor HernAndez Cruz,
who traces Latino collective identity to Africa and claims that all
Latinos are "swimming in olive oil," to Cuban writer Gustavo Perez
Firmat, who considers nationality more important than ethnicity and
says that "the term Latino erases [his] nationality." The dialogues
also offer new insights on the place of Chicano/a writings in the
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, on the Puerto Rican/Nuyorican
establishment, and on the anti-Castro stand of Cuban-born poets. As
thesewriters answer questions about their work, background, ethnic
identity, and political ideology, they provide a wealth of
biographical, intellectual, and literary material collected here
for the first time. "A Poet's Truth" is a provocative and revealing
book that not only conveys the fire of these writers' passions but
also sheds important light on a whole literary movement. Interviews
with:
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