Athletic Addictions Under Neoliberalism: Memoirs, Documentaries and the Energetic Excesses of Contemporary Sports Stars

我的博士研究通过阅读体育回忆录和神话体育纪录片的忏悔模式，研究了关于运动成瘾的叙述如何展示了新自由主义对消费和详尽提取的交织。我的论文用损害、限制和救赎来询问他们的执着，揭示了运动成瘾叙事的核心是消费-提取的束缚，以及他们对新自由主义对特定运动身体和身体类型的影响的解释。虽然回忆录和忏悔书在文学研究中占有公认的地位，但体育回忆录和相关文本尚未被分析。事实上，将体育和文学同时研究是很少见的。然而，如果文学帮助我们渗透到重要的文化文本中，那么体育和体育故事不仅受欢迎，还有助于塑造流行的想象，这需要文学研究引以为豪的文本分析类型。这是我的博士项目的实地干预。通过探索体育文学和纪录片中的上瘾叙事，它将文学和电影研究与体育研究以及能源和医学人文研究以一种微妙和开创性的方式进行对话。它还借鉴但超出了对新自由主义体育治理的研究(Gaffney 2010，Guilianotti 2015)。

My doctoral research examines how narratives of athletic addiction demonstrate neoliberalism's intertwining of consumption and exhaustive extraction by reading the confessional mode of sports memoirs and mythologising sports documentaries. Interrogating their fixations with damage, limitation and redemption, my thesis unearths the consumptive-extractive bind at the heart of sporting addiction narratives as well as their explanations of the impact of neoliberalism on specific sporting bodies and body types. While memoirs and confessionals hold a recognised place in literary studies, sports memoirs and related texts have not been analysed. Indeed, it is rare for sport and literature to be studied in tandem. Yet if literature helps us penetrate important cultural texts, sports and sporting stories are not only popular but also help shape the popular imaginary in ways that require the type of textual analysis literary studies prides itself on. This is the field intervention of my doctoral project. By exploring addiction narratives in sporting literature and documentaries, it puts literary and film studies in dialogue with sports studies as well as the energy and medical humanities in a nuanced and ground-breaking fashion. It also draws on but extends beyond research on neoliberal sporting governance (Gaffney 2010, Guilianotti 2015).