(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph (Sports and Entertainment)

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph (Sports and Entertainment)

Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted runner, earning a track and field scholarship to Tennessee State. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Her underdog story made her into a media darling, and she was the subject of countless articles, a television movie, childrenâ€™s books, biographies, and she even featured on a U.S. postage stamp. In this work, Smith and Liberti consider not only Rudolphâ€™s achievements, but also the ways in which those achievements are interpreted and presented as historical fact. Theories of gender, race, class, and disability collide in the story of Wilma Rudolph, and Smith and Liberti examine this collision in an effort to more fully understand how history is shaped by the cultural concerns of the present. In doing so, the authors engage with the metanarratives which define the American experience and encourage more complex and nuanced interrogations of contemporary heroic legacy.
Country USA
Brand USYRC
Manufacturer Syracuse University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780815633846
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	USYRC
Manufacturer	Syracuse University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780815633846
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph (Sports and Entertainment)

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