Floats Like a Butterfly: The Rumble in the Jungle and the Art of Cool  

Oleh:

Sanyal, Sudipto

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: CELT: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching and Literature vol. 9 no. 1 (Jul. 2009), page 30-41.
Topik: boxing; Muhammad Ali; cool; identity; When We Were Kings Me; We. - Muhammad Ali He was Negritude. - Nonnan Mailer; on George Foreman
Fulltext: floats like.pdf (668.53KB)

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This paper discusses the Rumble in the Jungle, as the 1974 boxing world heavyweight championship bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire is known in popular culture, in the light of Robert Farris Thompson's analysis of the aesthetic of the cool in African tribal culture/so It connects various notions of cool to the creation of the spectacle of Ali in the documentary film on the event, When We Were Kings, and proposes a reading of Ali as a sort of culmination o/the idea of American cool.

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