Sporting Cultures - Hispanic Perspectives on Sport, Text and the Body

Informationen zum Autor Wood, David; Johnson, P. Louise Klappentext A collection of essays! which explore the representation and interaction of sport/text/body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America! Spain and the chicano population of the USA. Zusammenfassung The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of sport / text / body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America, Spain and the chicano population of the USA. As such, it opens a path for further study of an area that is experiencing significant growth in the international academic community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Patriotic Pastimes: The Role of Sport in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Keith Brewster; Chapter 2 Latin America and the Olympic Ideal of Progress: An Athlete’s Perspective, Frances Houghton; Chapter 3 Constructing Athletic Agents in the Chicano/a Culture of Los Angeles, Hilary A. Braysmith; Chapter 4 Golden But Not Brown: Oscar De La Hoya and the Complications of Culture, Manhood, and Boxing, Fernando Delgado; Chapter 5 Football: Forging Nationhood and Masculinities in Costa Rica, Carlos Sandoval-García; Chapter 6 The Place of Women in Argentinian Football, María Graciela Rodríguez; Chapter 7 The Manifesto of a Baseball-playing Country: Cuba, Baseball, and Poetry in the Late Nineteenth Century, Thomas F. Carter; Chapter 8 Reading the Game: The Role of Football in Peruvian Literature, David Wood; Chapter 9 Sport: A Literary Referent in Catalonia 1920–36, Anna Poch Gasau; Chapter 10 Spanish Identities in the European Press: The Case of Football Writing, David Hand, Liz Crolley;

Product details

• Authors: David Johnson Wood
• Assisted by: P Louise Johnson (Editor), P. Louise Johnson (Editor), Johnson P. Louise (Editor), David Wood (Editor), Wood David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.05.2008
• EAN: 9780415457620
• ISBN: 978-0-415-45762-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general