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"Using the idiom of literary criticism and critical race theory, Rutter (Ball State University) analyzes the ways in which Black baseball has been memorialized, interpreted, and represented in fiction. The old baseball Negro Leagues all dissolved by 1960, but because they were marginalized, as were the historical memory and chronicle of them, the literary representation that followed took on great importance. According to Rutter, the commemoration of Black baseball in literature served to fill the gaps in the historical record, to share the actual archival research that these authors completed in order to create these representations, and to counteract dominant cultural mythologies and stereotypes about Black baseball and about African Americans in general. The author covers works by writers of all races and touches on movies and plays as well as children's, YA, and adult fiction. Including an extensive, useful bibliography, this engaging, scholarly treatise fills a real need in literary criticism about the depiction of the African American experience in segregated baseball.--M. P. Tosko, University of Akron ""CHOICE, February 2019, Vol. 56 No. 6"""

Using the idiom of literary criticism and critical race theory, Rutter (Ball State University) analyzes the ways in which Black baseball has been memorialized, interpreted, and represented in fiction. The old baseball Negro Leagues all dissolved by 1960, but because they were marginalized, as were the historical memory and chronicle of them, the literary representation that followed took on great importance. According to Rutter, the commemoration of Black baseball in literature served to fill the gaps in the historical record, to share the actual archival research that these authors completed in order to create these representations, and to counteract dominant cultural mythologies and stereotypes about Black baseball and about African Americans in general. The author covers works by writers of all races and touches on movies and plays as well as children's, YA, and adult fiction. Including an extensive, useful bibliography, this engaging, scholarly treatise fills a real need in literary criticism about the depiction of the African American experience in segregated baseball.--M. P. Tosko, University of Akron CHOICE, February 2019, Vol. 56 No. 6

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Emily Ruth Rutter is associate professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry. Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she coedited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era. Her numerous essays have appeared in A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry, African American Review, MELUS, and Aethlon, among other journals and edited collections.

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