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(Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph / Rita Liberti & Maureen M. Smith.
- Title
- (Re)presenting Wilma Rudolph / Rita Liberti & Maureen M. Smith.
- Author
- Liberti, Rita
- Publication
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
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- Additional Authors
- Smith, Maureen Margaret, 1967-
- Description
- xiii, 328 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph explores the major episodes and sites of memory across the track legend's life and death. Analyzing newspaper and magazine accounts, dozens of children's books, and a television movie, among other materials, Liberti and Smith highlight the range of ways meaning was constructed around Rudolph and her accomplishments on the track. Rather than a traditional biography, this book unpacks the collective memories we create and share about the Olympian. A close reading of the stories that are remembered and circulated about Rudolph not only underscore the athlete's agency but simultaneously minimize and even erase the ways in which racism and sexism impacted her life." -- Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Sports and entertainment
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Sports and entertainment.
- Alternative Title
- Representing Wilma Rudolph
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Wilma's home town win? Race on parade in Clarksville -- "She isn't Colored, she is gold": the politics of race and beauty -- Running with the story: From Cold War icon to Civil Rights rebel -- Examining the autobiographical self: Wilma Rudolph on bookshelves -- Wilma: biopics, nostalgia, and family in the 1970s -- Against all odds: reading Rudolph over four decades of children's literature -- On the margins of memory: the politics of remembering and forgetting Wilma Rudolph through material culture -- Conclusion: to tell the truth.
- ISBN
- 9780815633846
- 081563384X
- 9780815653073 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015006735
- OCLC
- 895730718
- SCSB-12725255
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library