Dunky the Frog and the Politics of Irony

Autor:	Ted Alexander, Sean Brayton
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Identity politics Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Offensive Art history Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Art Postmodernism Irony Politics Aesthetics Reading (process) Realm Contradiction Orthopedics and Sports Medicine media_common
Zdroj:	Sociology of Sport Journal. 24:241-260
ISSN:	1543-2785 0741-1235
DOI:	10.1123/ssj.24.3.241
Popis:	Although scholars have used poststructural and postmodern frameworks to understand the power relations of sport, critical research has rarely considered a politics of irony in the sporting realm. Using the controversial frog logo of Québec City’s professional basketball team, we explore irony as a reading strategy and method of critique that is already ambivalent. As a self-directed stereotype, Dunky the Frog is unique in its emergence through irony. It appears to be an offensive anti-French mascot intended by the team’s French Canadian owner to be an innocuous comic prop. This ironic use of frog imagery places the competing desires of liberalist sublimation and French Canadian self-representation into an irresolvable contradiction, one that encourages an alternative reading of mascot controversies and identity politics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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