Benson Peter Benson

Battling Siki (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610750592
• Artikelnr.: 72328274

Autorenporträt

Peter Benson is associate professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the author of Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa. He has been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dakar, University of Nairobi, and Kenyatta University.