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Introduction
Part I. Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences
1. “All Lithe Power and Confidence”: Skateboarding in Michael Christie’s If I Fall, If I Die
Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport
2. Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor’s The Blue Light Project
On The Blue Light Project: An Interview with Timothy Taylor
3. Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll’s Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra
4. Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms
Part II. Colonialism and Nature
5. Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields and Angie Abdou’s The Canterbury Trail
“Climbing It with Your Mind”: An Interview with Thomas Wharton
6. A “Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer”: Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground
7. Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories
Part III. Gender, Race, and Class
8. “Maggie’s Own Sphere”: Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel
9. “Don’t Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport”: Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk’s Stampede and the Westness of West
Contention, On Rodeo: Aritha van Herk on Rodeo and Writing
10. Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis’s “The Second Strongest Man”
Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer’s Sensibility: An Interview with David Bezmozgis
11. “It All Gets Beaten Out of You”: Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton’s The Shadow Boxer
On Boxing: An Interview with Steven Heighton
12. Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship
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