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Textbooks

Abdou, Angie, and Jamie Dopp, editors. Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature. Athabasca UP, 2023.
Abdou, Angie, and Jamie Dopp, editors. Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature. Athabasca UP, 2018.

Unit 1

Abdou, Angie. Introduction. Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 3–10.
Abdou, Angie and Jamie Dopp. Introduction. Not Hockey, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2023. pp. 3–7.
Carrier, Roch. “The Sweater.” Directed by Sheldon Cohen. National Film Board of Canada, 1980, https://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater.

Unit 2

MacLeod, Alexander. “Miracle Mile.” Light Lifting: Stories, Biblioasis Press, 2010, pp. 9–44.
Davis, Laura K. “Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod’s ‘Miracle Mile’.” Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 153–166.
Kinsella, W. P. “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa.” The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories, edited by Wayne Grady, Penguin, 1982, pp. 427–439.
Mason, Fred. “W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe: The Fairy Tale, the Hero’s Quest, and the Magic Realism of Baseball.” Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 11–24.

Unit 3

Maggs, Randall. “Neither Rhyme nor Reason.” Brick Books, 30 April 2015, https://www.brickbooks.ca/week-18-randall-maggs-presented-by-angie-abdou.
Abdou, Angie. “How a Poet Tells Time.” Brick Books, 30 April 2015, https://www.brickbooks.ca/week-18-randall-maggs-presented-by-angie-abdou.
Dopp, Jamie. “Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body.” Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 93–105.
Abdou, Angie. “Why Fans of The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Should Read The Good Body by Bill Gaston.” CBC Radio, 10 September 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-july-20-2019-1.4814229/why-fans-of-the-art-of-fielding-by-chad-harbach-should-read-the-good-body-by-bill-gaston-1.4817089.

Unit 4

Abdou, Angie. “Why Read Historical Fiction about Sport?” Routledge Handbook of Sport History, edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth, and Carly Adams, Routledge, 2022, pp. 74–81.
Dopp, Jamie. “From Tank to Deep Water: Myth and History in Samantha Warwick’s Sage Island.” Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 139–151.
Müller, Eva-Maria. “Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields and Angie Abdou’s The Canterbury Trail.” Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2023, pp. 83–101.

Unit 5

Colman, Dan. “Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Good Short Story.” Open Culture, 10 April 2015, http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/kurt-vonneguts-8-tips-on-how-to-write-a-good-short-story.html.
“George Saunders – On Story.” Directed by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason. YouTube, uploaded by Redglass Pictures, 26 October 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-1xNNrABw8.
“Fiction Writing Basics.” Purdue University Online Writing Lab. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/fiction_writing_basics/index.html. Accessed 16 February 2024.

Unit 6

McKegney, Sam, and Trevor J. Phillips. “Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse.” Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2018, pp. 167–184.
Phillips, Gyllian. “Getting Away from It All, or Breathing it All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories.” Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2023, pp. 127–143.
Richardson, Jael. “Turn it Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.” Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature, edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, Athabasca UP, 2023, pp. 227–235.
Rogers, Shelagh. “Shelagh Rogers Remembers Richard Wagamese.” The Next Chapter, CBC Radio, 13 March 2017, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/monia-mazigh-and-remembering-richard-wagamese-1.4015814/shelagh-rogers-remembers-richard-wagamese-1.4022275.
Rogers, Shelagh. “Author Richard Wagamese on his Novel Indian Horse.” CBC Archives, 20 June 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/archives/author-richard-wagamese-on-his-novel-indian-horse-1.4673401.

Unit 7

Buma, Michael. “Sport Literature.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 15 December 2013, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sport-literature.