CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• Shirley Chew & John McLeod

POETRY

• Stephen Derwent Partington, An Odyssey, Generation Z

• Leong Liew Geok, Wrestlers, Gymnast, Weightlifter

INTERVIEWS

• Alexis Tadié, Writing about Cricket:

  a conversation with Mukul Kesavan

• Lim Lee Ching, Bowling for Columbo:

  a conversation with Shehan Karunatilaka

• Chris Murray, The White Crane Art of Shàolín’s Five Ancestors:

  a conversation with Chan See-meng

• Susan Burns, 'The intricacies of ordinary life':

  an interview with Paul Floyd Blake

FICTION

• Wai-chew Sim, Mexican Wave
  

ARTICLES

• John Whale, ‘Imperfect Sympathies’: the Early Nineteenth-century

  Formation of Responses to Black Fighters in Britain

• David Murphy, When Symbols Start to Speak: Lilian Thuram and

  the French Identity Debates

  The relationship between sporting success and the supposedly successful integration of immigrant minorities has gained even greater prominence since France’s victory in the 1998 World Cup Final.

  From ‘When Symbols Start to Speak’

  by David Murphy

• Supriya Chaudhuri, Literary Modernism and Subaltern Sport

• Philip Dine, Big-Game Hunting in Algeria from Jules Gérard to

  Tartarin de Tarascon

• Nima Poovaya-Smith, Games in the Park

• Claire Westall, Cricket, Capital, and Civility in Joseph O’Neill’s

  Netherland

• Alex Boyd and Lynette Hunter, The Art of Play: Lishi, Contemporary

  Dance, and Cricket

• Lim Yiru, 15'-3'-15': Underwater Hockey in 3 Movements

• Timothy O’Grady, Symposium

• Dave Gunning, Race, Community, and Agency in

  Fictional Representations of Sport in Britain

• David James, Extraordinary Moves: The Art of Science in

  the Cultural Olympiad

REVIEWS

• by Alistair Stead, Natalie Diebschlag, Clare Barker, Corinne Fowler

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS