The Cambridge Companion to Boxing is due to be published at the end
of this year and I have contributed the following chapters to the project:
● ‘The Africans: Boxing and Africa’
● ‘Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer’
Description
While humans have used their hands to engage in
combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic
event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in
the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered
individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and
commercial exploitation of mostly poor young men. This Companion offers
engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical
importance of the sport, listing all the important events and personalities. Essays
examine topics such as women in boxing, boxing and the rise of television,
boxing in Africa, boxing and literature, and boxing and Hollywood films. A
unique book for scholars and fans alike, this Companion explores the sport from
its inception in Ancient Greece to the death of its most celebrated figure,
Muhammad Ali.
Editor
Gerald Early, Professor of English and
African-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written
about boxing since the early 1980s. His book, the Culture of Bruising (1994)
won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He also edited
the The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998) and Body Language: Writers (1998). His
essays have appeared several times in the Best American Essays series.
Contributors
Byron J. Nakamura, Elliot J. Gorn, Adam Chill, Louis
Moore, Colleen Aycock, Carlo Rotella, Troy Rondinone, Adeyinka Makinde, Benita
Heiskanen, Cathy van Ingen, Steven A, Reiss, Tony Gee, Randy Roberts, Wil
Haygood, Lewis Erenberg, Michael Ezra, Mark Scott, Kasia Boddy, Scott D. Emmer,
Leger Grindon, Rebecca Wanzo, Benjamin Cawthra, Rosalind Early, Shelley Fisher
Fishkin, Gerald Early.
Table of Contents
1. Boxing in the Ancient World by Byron J. Nakaruma
2. The Bare-Knuckle Era by Elliot J. Gorn
3. Jem Mace and the Making of Modern Boxing by Adam
Chill
4. Race and
Boxing in the Nineteenth Century by Louis Moore
5. Joe Gans and his Contemporaries: The Contest for
Supremacy in the Queensberry Realm by Colleen Aycock
6. Dempsey-Tunney, Tunney-Greb, and the 1920s by
Carlo Rotella
7. Prime Time and Crime Time: Boxing in the 1950s by
Troy Rondinone
8. The Africans: Boxing and Africa by Adeyinka
Makinde
9. A Century of Fighting Latinos: From the Margins
to the Mainstream by Benita Heiskanen
10. Women’s Boxing: Bout Time by Cathy van Ingen
11. Jews in Twentieth-Century Boxing by Steven A.
Reiss
12. A Surprising Dearth of Top English-born Jewish
Fighters in the Bare-Knuckle Era by Tony Gee
13. Joe Louis: ‘You Should Have Seen Him Then’ by
Randy Roberts
14. The Furious Beauty of Sugar Ray by Wil Haygood
15. Echoes from the Jungle: Muhammad Ali in the
Early 70s by Lewis Erenberg
16. The Unusable Champions: Sonny Liston (1962-1964)
and Larry Holmes (1978-1985) by Michael Ezra
17. Emile Griffith: An Underrated Champion by Mark
Scott
18. Pierce Egan, Boxing, and British Nationalism by
Adam Chill
19. Jose Torres: The Boxer as Writer by Adeyinka
Makinde
20. ‘Well, What was it really Like?’ George
Plimpton, Norman Mailer, and the Heavyweights by Kasia Boddy
21. Jack London and the Great White Hopes of Boxing
Literature by Scott D. Emmer
22. Body and Soul of the Screen Boxer by Leger
Grindon
23. Black Slaver: Jack Johnson and the Mann Act by
Rebecca Wanzo
24. Yesternow: Jack Johnson, Documentary Film, and
the Politics of Jazz by Benjamin Cawthra
25. Opera for Boxers by Rosalind Early
26. The Voice of Boxing: A Brief History of American
Broadcasting Ringside by Colleen Aycock
27. Ralph Wiley’s Surprising Serenity by Shelley
Fisher Fishkin
28. Muhammad Ali, King of the Inauthentic by Gerald
Early
Book Details
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-107-05801-9
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-107-63120-5
Price: £69.99 (Hardback)/£24.99 (Paperback)
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