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- Title: Circles in the Corn: Native American Spirituality in Kinsella's Shoeless Joe.
- Author : Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 370 KB
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Critics of W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe (1982) agree that the novel is permeated with religion and spirituality, and that its author employs baseball as a metaphor for religion. J As Bobby Fong observes, it "looks [not] at baseball but rather through baseball," which is "a metaphor that contains a complex of feelings, symbols, and themes." (2) Kinsella himself acknowledged that he employs "symbols, ironies, Biblical and mythological tales retold" to encourage readers to look for deeper meaning. (3) That Kinsella positively associates baseball with another set of symbols and mythologies--those of Native Americans--is implicit in the arguments of a few scholars. (4) Don Murray, who has written extensively about Kinsella and several of his works, concludes that the author's baseball stories and his Indian stories represent a "healthy connection between man and the things of the earth." (5) Less directly, Brian Aitken sees Kinsella contrasting the spiritually nourishing past-time of baseball with the unhealthiness of white technocratic culture. (6)