Cultures of Boxing

Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. It does this be exploring and interrogating different aspects of boxing culture and associated concepts like masculinity and violence.

David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual and Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. A middleweight amateur boxer, he has explored his experience of boxing in terms both of creative writing ( , 2014) and academic study ( , 2009). His interest in the representation of boxing in writing, the visual arts and in design reflects his wider academic and creative interests which include literature, painting, semiotics and textual/visual studies, around which subjects he has organised a number of exhibitions and on which he has published many books. He is currently working on a collection of short stories entitled .

Contents: Joseph D. Lewandowski: Boxing and Urban Culture – Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns: The Historical Transformations of the «Boxing Idol»: The Case of Max Schmeling – Marcy S. Sacks: Speaking Through Silence? Whites’ Efforts to Make Meaning of Joe Louis – Philip Dine: Boxing and «Ethnic» Masculinity in Colonial North Africa – Darryl Jones: Iron Mike and Me: The Fall and Further Fall of Mike Tyson – Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns: Single and Mass Combats: A Comparison of Traditional Russian Fist-Fighting and Western Boxing – Sharon Harrow: Ideology and Satire in English Bare-Knuckle Boxing Literature – David Scott: Boxers’ Noses – Robert Anasi: A Nose for Punchers: A. J. Liebling’s Boxing Writing – Kasia Boddy: «He certainly was a fighter»: Boxing as in Ellison and Bellow – Karin Rase: Boxing as Staged Performance in Contemporary Art.