Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

Peter Benson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2008
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
9781557288882 (ISBN)

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Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. This is a biography Siki.

This is the first biography of the controversial and misunderstood African boxer, now in paper. Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson's lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

Peter Benson is professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the author of Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa, and an avid boxing fan.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2008
Zusatzinfo	15 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Fayetteville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 222 mm
Gewicht	543 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
ISBN-13	9781557288882 / 9781557288882
Zustand	Neuware