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Heacutector Fernaacutendez LrsquoHoeste Robert McKee Irwin

and Juan Poblete






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SPORTS AND NATIONALISM IN LATINO AMERICA

Copyright copy Heacutector Fernaacutendez LrsquoHoeste Robert McKee Irwinand Juan Poblete 2015

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First published in 2015 byPALGRAVE MACMILLANregin the United Statesmdasha division of St Martinrsquos Press LLC175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010

Where this book is distributed in the UK Europe and the rest of the worldthis is by Palgrave Macmillan a division of Macmillan Publishers Limitedregistered in England company number 785998 of HoundmillsBasingstoke Hampshire RG21 6XS

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ISBN 978ndash1ndash137ndash48718ndash6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sports and nationalism in Latino America edited by Heacutector FernaacutendezLrsquoHoeste Robert McKee Irwin Juan Poblete

pages cmmdash(New directions in Latino American culture) Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN 978ndash1ndash137ndash48718ndash6 (hardback) 1 SportsmdashLatin AmericamdashHistory 2 Nationalism and sportsmdashLatin AmericamdashHistory 3 SportsmdashSocial aspectsmdashLatin AmericaI Fernaacutendez lrsquoHoeste Heacutector D 1962ndash II Irwin Robert McKee1962ndash III Poblete Juan

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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library

Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd Chennai India

First edition May 2015

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This book is dedicated to

the loving memory of Heacutectorrsquos father Heacutector

Fernaacutendez Angulo who shared his love for the Yankees

Robertrsquos late parents Kathryn and Robert Irwin

and Juanrsquos father Juan Poblete Merino who never practiced sports but embodies the best of their spirit






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List of Tables xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1Heacutector Fernaacutendez LrsquoHoeste Robert McKee Irwinand Juan Poblete

Part I Sports and the Construction of Nationalism

1 Football and Patria Ten Years Later SportsNationalism as a Commodity 29Pablo Alabarces

2 The Antinational Game An Exploration of WomenrsquosSoccer in Latin America 45 Joshua Nadel

3 (F)Utopias The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica 67Sergio Villena Fiengo

4 Race Sports and Regionalism in the Construction of

Colombian Nationalism 85Heacutector Fernaacutendez LrsquoHoeste

Part II Sports as Intranational Mediation

5 The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model ofCulture Life Stories Mediated by Television News 109Vander Casaqui

6 Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil 125Renata Maria Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega

7 The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at BatBodies Voices and Spaces of Cuban Baseballin Sport Documentaries 141

Juan Carlos Rodriacuteguez






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Part III Sports and Alterity

8 ldquoCan I please have a ramp with that Gold MedalrdquoColombian Paralympics and the ProstheticLim(b)inality of Nation 163Chloe Rutter-Jensen

9 Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico 181Hortensia Moreno

10 ldquoYou Have the Right to Surfrdquo Riding Waves ofModernity Decolonization and NationalIdentity in Peru 201

Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee

Part IV Sports as Transnational Mediation

11 Guillermo Vilas ldquoTennisrsquos Sexiest Manrdquo The ArgentineDictatorship in the US Tennis Press 1974ndash1982 227Robert McKee Irwin

12 The Meanings of Manu Style Race and Globalizationin the Culture of Basketball 249Yago Colaacutes

13 Latino Soccer Nationalism and Border Zones inthe United States 269

Juan Poblete

Notes on Contributors 289

Index 291





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The Famous 41 Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico c 1901edited by Robert McKee Irwin Edward J McCaughanand Michelle Rociacuteo Nasser

Velvet Barrios Popular Culture amp Chicanao Sexualities edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Tongue Ties Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

by Gustavo Peacuterez Firmat

Bilingual Games Some Literary Investigations edited by Doris Sommer

Jose Martiacute An Introduction by Oscar Montero

New Tendencies in Mexican Art the 1990s by Rubeacuten Gallo

The Masters and the Slaves Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

edited by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

The Letter of Violence Essays on Narrative Ethics and Politics by Idelber Avelar

An Intellectual History of the Caribbean by Silvio Torres-Saillant

None of the Above Puerto Ricans in the Global Era edited by Frances Negroacuten-Muntaner

Queer Latino Testimonio Keith Haring and Juanito Xtravaganza Hard Tails by Arnaldo Cruz-Malaveacute

The Portable Island Cubans at Home in the World edited by Ruth Behar and Luciacutea M Suaacuterez

Violence without Guilt Ethical Narratives from the Global South by Hermann Herlinghaus

Redrawing the Nation National Identity in Latino American Comics edited by Heacutector Fernaacutendez LrsquoHoeste and Juan Poblete

Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration Narratives of Displacement

edited by Vanessa Peacuterez Rosario

Caviar with Rum Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience

edited by Jacqueline Loss and Joseacute Manuel Prieto

Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience by Christabelle Peters

Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureBody Articulations

by Bruce Dean Willis






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by Sophia Beal




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Index 291





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Index 291





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Index 291





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Juan Poblete


Index 291





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Index 291





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Index 291





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