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Argentinian Football
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chicano
Chicano cultural analysis
Criollo Elite
Cuban Identity
Cuban Nation
cultural identity research
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De La Hoya
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FC Barcelona
Federation Francaise De Football
Female Football Fans
football
Football Competitions
Football Writing
gender in athletics
Heartbreak Tango
hoya
humanities sport research
Josep Maria De Sagarra
Latin American studies
Male Respectability
murals
Nation Elite Sport
National Team
oscar
Oscar De La Hoya
Peruvian Literature
Popular Public Sphere
Public Art Resource Center
representation of athletes in Hispanic cultures
spanish
Spanish Football
Spanish Identities
Spanish National Side
sports sociology
women's
Women's Football
world
World Cup Finals
writing
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415574600
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Dec 2009
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world, a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. 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. The book consists of 11 chapters by different authors, and an introduction, totalling c.85,000 words. The essays deal with the key sporting practices of the Hispanic world, including boxing, baseball, athletics, Olympic movements and football, approaching them as physical manifestations in their own right and as cultural representations (via media images, poetry, narrative fiction, murals) through the research methodologies of the humanities and social sciences.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport

About
David Wood is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the Department of Hispanic Studies, the University of Sheffield. Research interests centre on culture and society in Latin America, especially Peru and Cuba. Publications include a monographic study of the Peruvian author Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939- ) and book chapters and articles on literature, football, artesanía and cinema in Peru. A book on Popular Culture in Peru (including a major chapter on football), arising from an AHRB research leave award, to be published in 2004. Current research focuses on textual representations of football in Latin America. Dr. P. Louise Johnson is Director of Catalan Studies and Lecturer in Catalan and Spanish at the Department of Hispanic Studies, the University of Sheffield. Current research centres on the relationship between sport and literary / philosophical texts in pre-Civil War Spain. Publications include a monograph on the Mallorcan novelist Llorenç Villalonga, including a significant chapter on physical culture, and articles on modern Catalan literature and culture. Currently on AHRB research leave to complete a project on intellectuals and physical culture in early twentieth-century Catalonia.