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Personal Score
Sport, Culture, Identity
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Personal Score
From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport's troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality.
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From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport's troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality.
Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport's troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality—and question what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises.
With emotional honesty and searing insight, van Neerven shines a light on sport on this continent from a queer First Nations perspective, revealing how some athletes have long challenged mainstream views and used their roles to effect change not only in their own realm, but in society more broadly.
Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that confirms, once again, van Neerven's unrivalled talent, courage and originality.
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Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven is praised for its insightful exploration of the intersection between sport, identity, and colonialism, particularly from the perspective of First Nations people. The book blends personal memoir, history, journalism, and poetry to offer a rich analysis of the complexities in contemporary Australian sport, highlighting themes of race, gender, and sexuality. Critics appreciate van Neerven's ability to weave together varied narratives to provide a compelling examination of sport as both a tool for liberation and a battleground for cultural and social issues.
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ISBN: 9780702265853
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 May 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 227.0mm
Weight: 486g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. Ellen's first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They have written two poetry collections- Comfort Food, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize; and Throat, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
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