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Chopra, Samir

 
9781439911976: The Evolution of a Cricket Fan: My Shapeshifting Journey
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ISBN 10 : 1439911975 ISBN 13 : 9781439911976
Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2021

Synopsis

Samir Chopra is an immigrant, a "voluntary exile," who discovers he can tell the story of his life through cricket, a game that has long been an influence-really, an obsession-for him. In so doing, he reveals how his changing views on the sport mirror his journey of self-discovery. In The Evolution of a Cricket Fan, Chopra is thus able to reflect on his changing perceptions of self, and of the nations and cultures that have shaped his identity, politics, displacement, and fandom.

Chopra's passion for the sport began as a child, when he rooted for Pakistan and against his native India. When he migrated, he became a fan of the Indian team that gave him a sense of home among the various cultures he encountered in North America and Australia. This "shapeshifting" exposes the rift between the Old and the New world, which Chopra acknowledges is "cricket's greatest modern crisis." But it also illuminates the identity dilemmas of post-colonial immigrants in the Indian diaspora.

Chopra's thoughts about the sport and its global influence are not those of a player. He provides access to the inner world of the global cricket fan navigating the world that colonial empire wrought and that cricket continues to connect and animate. He observes that the Indian cricket team carries many burdens-not only must they win cricket matches, but their style of play must generate a pride that assuages generations of wounds inflicted by history. And Chopra must navigate where he stands in that history.

The Evolution of a Cricket Fan shows Chopra's own wins and losses as his life takes new directions and his fandom changes allegiances.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samir Chopra is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Eye on Cricket: Reflections on the Great Game, and coauthor of Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software and A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents.

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Éditeur
Temple University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1439911975
ISBN 13 
9781439911976
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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