Full Product Details
Author: H. Fernández L’Hoeste ,
R. Irwin ,
J. Poblete
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 5.072kg
ISBN: 9781137487186
ISBN 10: 1137487186
Pages: 307
Publication Date: 06 May 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
This book is a welcome contribution to a tremendously important but inexplicably neglected field in Latin American popular cultures. The politics of sport have accompanied the processes of urbanization and modernization, and contributed as well to shape national, gendered, and class identities in Latin America since late nineteenth century. Nowadays, sports' transnational commodification poses new and complex queries that demand our attention. - Abril Trigo, Ohio State University, USA and author of Crisis y Transfiguracion de los Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos I know of no other book that offers such a rich, diverse, and enlightening collection of essays about the relationship between sports and nationalism in any region of the world. This is a path-breaking collection of essays that is rare in its breadth, the quality of its scholarship, and the comprehensiveness of its treatment of various sports in Latin/o America. It sets a new standard for future studies on the politics and culture of sports in the region. - Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon, USA and author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935
This offering in the 'New Directions in Latino American Cultures' series opens with an extensive introduction that includes information about the first appearances in Latin America of soccer (from England) and baseball (from the US), a history and survey of cultural sport studies and their development in Latin America, and generalizations about sports and nationalism. ... The book is well documented throughout. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. (R. V. McGehee, Choice, Vol. 53 (5), January, 2016) This book is a welcome contribution to a tremendously important but inexplicably neglected field in Latin American popular cultures. The politics of sport have accompanied the processes of urbanization and modernization, and shaped national, gendered, and class identities in Latin America since late nineteenth century. Nowadays, sports' transnational commodification poses new and complex queries that demand our attention. - Abril Trigo, Ohio State University, USA and author of Crisis y Transfiguracion de los Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos I know of no other book that offers such a rich, diverse, and enlightening collection of essays about the relationship between sports and nationalism in any region of the world. This is a path breaking collection of essays that is rare in its breadth, the quality of its scholarship, and the comprehensiveness of its treatment of various sports in Latin/o America. It sets a new standard for future studies on the politics and culture of sports in the region. - Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon, USA and author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850 1935
Author Information
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste is Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Georgia State University, USA. Robert McKee Irwin is Chair of the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis, USA. Juan Poblete is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
