Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America
ISBN: 9781137518002
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Social Science;

This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.

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.

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