Truth and Reconciliation in Postcolonial Hockey Masculinities

IF 0.1 4区文学 0 LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN

CANADIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-05 DOI:10.14288/CL.V0I237.190753

Julie Cairnie

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Abstract

Sport is one of the key recommendations in the TRC's final reoort, and it is imperative that scholars of sport literature and culture take this seriously. Hockey, as Canada's national sport, is a critical place to begin.It is assumed that hockey is unifying, but it is a “contact zone” (Pratt) where “players” present competing narratives about the meaning of hockey, “our game,” in a post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Canada. Here I present a contact zone reading of two books about hockey: Stephen Harper’s A Great Game (2013) and Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse (2012). The books were published a year apart and each one has national significance: Harper’s history was published when he was the sitting Prime Minister, and Wagamese’s novel was a strong contender in CBC’s “Canada Reads” in 2013. Harper presents a neat progress narrative (from amateur to professional hockey), while Wagamese refuses the conventional narrative of hockey development and progress, and tracks the movement away from professional to community-based hockey. In Indian Horse both hockey and masculinities undergo a process of truth and reconciliation, and hockey is provided a far more nuanced narrative than Harper’s text allows. Key Words: Postcolonial Hockey; Canadian Masculinities; Wagamese; Harper

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后殖民时代曲棍球男子气概中的真理与和解

体育是真相与和解委员会最终报告中的关键建议之一，体育文学和文化学者必须认真对待这一点。冰球作为加拿大的国家运动，是一个重要的起点。人们认为曲棍球是统一的，但它是一个“接触区”（普拉特），在后真相与和解委员会（TRC）的加拿大，“球员”在这里就曲棍球的意义——“我们的比赛”——提出相互竞争的叙事。在这里，我展示了两本关于曲棍球的书的接触区阅读：斯蒂芬·哈珀的《一场伟大的比赛》（2013）和理查德·瓦加梅斯的《印度马》（2012）。这两本书相隔一年出版，每本书都具有国家意义：哈珀的历史是在他担任现任总理时出版的，瓦加梅斯的小说是2013年加拿大广播公司“加拿大阅读”节目的有力竞争者。Harper提出了一个整洁的进步叙事（从业余冰球到职业冰球），而Wagamese拒绝了传统的冰球发展和进步叙事，并追踪了从职业冰球到社区冰球的运动。在《印度马》中，曲棍球和男子气概都经历了一个真相与和解的过程，而曲棍球的叙事比哈珀的文本所允许的要微妙得多。关键词：后殖民曲棍球；加拿大男子气概；Wagamese；哈珀

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