Seductions and Flirtations

Bello, Patrizia Di

doi:10.1080/17540760802285106

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“…The examination of artefacts, especially images, located in the private collections of the players (Leather, Alexander, Ryder, Salahuddin and Nisar) and from club archives including those of Cricket New South Wales, the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Cricket Club of India are undertaken within the milieu of theories espoused by Sontag (2008), Urry (1992), Mavor (1997), Appadurai (1988), Haldrup and Larsen (2003), Di Bello (2008), Huggins and O'Mahony (2011), Dohmen (2012), Engmann (2012) and Stevenson (2013). Huggins and O'Mahony identify the importance of visual culture in the scholarly investigation of sport and lament that until recently it has not been bequeathed due deference (2011).…”

Section: Ambiguities Emergementioning

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An unsung history: the birth of Indian–Australian cricket

Ponsford

2017

Sport in Society

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In October 1935, a touring party embarked on the inaugural tour of India by an Australian cricket team. To a great, and somewhat stereotypical, extent popular representations of Indian-Australian relations are viewed through the lens of cricket-the national game in both countries. This study about a significant, yet overlooked, chapter in sporting history examines the Australian cricketers' response to the social, racial and political hierarchies of late-colonial India. The experience of the touring party encouraged a re-imagining of ideological perspectives and this research has revealed a uniquely Australian subjectivity to the British colonization of India. The tour between the colony (India) and the dominion (Australia) can be interpreted as an anti-imperial gesture. Both countries were attempting to forge relationships that would be independent from Britain. The role of cricket, itself experiencing a renaissance during the 1930s as it transformed from a largely amateur pursuit to an increasingly professional occupation is interrogated. As part of this transformation international cricket positioned itself as an increasingly politicized global entity within the broader turbulence of the firsthalf of the twentieth century. All those involved in the tour are now dead. However a close historical analysis of previously lost, highly personalized, primary material (letters, manuscripts, photographs and cricket ephemera) enables an interpretation of the players' experience. This study argues that sporting events can be interpreted as cultural ciphers yet scholars and the wider sports-writing community have neglected the historical significance of the 1935/36 tour. The unofficial status of the tour and its highly professional emphasis alienated it from the amateur ideals of contemporary Australian cricket. This transnational, multidisciplinary approach addresses a lacunae in the professional trajectory of cricket. It also provides a new understanding and historical counter narrative of mid-twentieth century Indian-Australian sporting history and cultural exchange. In 2006, I was the fortunate recipient of an unanticipated box of historic cricket artefacts that had previously belonged to Thomas (Tom) William Leather (1910-1991). Tom, an enthusiastic yet largely unknown sportsman, was married to Doll, my grandfather's sister. My grandfather, William (Bill) Ponsford, an ex-Test and Victorian batsman, came to live with my family in Woodend, Victoria when I was 10, following the death of his wife. This

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An unsung history: the birth of Indian–Australian cricket

Ponsford

2017

Sport in Society

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“…Coming to the issue of source criticism, the remark made by Di Bello (2008: 143) that "[h]istory, like photography, is never a neutral or unproblematic representation of the past" seems quite appropriate. Researchers should, in my view, approach photographic sources with "the same methodological rigour" we apply to "other historical artefacts" (Brothers 1997: 16).…”

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New Insights in the History of Interpreting

Pérez¹

2016

Benjamins Translation Library

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“…She terms them "albums of flirtation" and argues that they were intended to be viewed by a lady's potential suitors. 82 The unknown woman's placement near portraits of Charles Bell and within flowers which symbolized beauty suggest that Bell had her photograph placed in his album as a gesture of his own romantic affection. This observation reveals something new about the representation of romantic love in Victorian albums.…”

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“…While it has been assumed in the past that allusions to flirtation were preserved in albums as expressions of women's affections, this example illustrates how expressions of romantic love and personal feelings tied to kinship were also expressed in albums belonging to men. 83 Walker's use of floral imagery can also be interpreted as an extension of her own artistic practice. Not only was floriography, the visual language of flowers, given gendered associations during the period, but it was considered an acceptable artistic subject matter for upper-middleclass women.…”

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“…The types of collaborations, messages and images added to these objects by community members influenced how they were perceived and viewed, illustrating how they were used by individual women "to respond to their understanding of social relations." 83 The meaning of these objects are polyvalent, and informed by their reception; not only in relation to those who viewed the album but also by those who added to these collections.…”

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Multiple authorship and polyvalence in the Victorian-Canadian photocollage album: the work of Caroline Walker and Hannah Sarah Howard

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Seductions and Flirtations

Cited by 8 publications

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An unsung history: the birth of Indian–Australian cricket

An unsung history: the birth of Indian–Australian cricket

New Insights in the History of Interpreting

Multiple authorship and polyvalence in the Victorian-Canadian photocollage album: the work of Caroline Walker and Hannah Sarah Howard

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