Thomas F Carter

The Quality of Home Runs

The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses the sport of baseball, about which most Cubans are passionate, to look at what it means to be Cuban and at how Cuba deals with the outside world, as well as to compare various disciplinary approaches to the sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342533
• ISBN-10: 0822342537
• Artikelnr.: 23881231

Autorenporträt

Thomas F. Carter

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Entering the Field vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. The Theoretical "Stretching:" of Sport and the State 1
1. Baseball and the Language of Contention 17
2. Circling the Base Paths: Baseball, Migration, and the Cuban Nation 36
3. The Spectacle of and for Cuba 63
4. The State in Play: The Politics of Cuba's National Sport 89
5. Fans, Rivalries, and the Play of Cuba 111
6. Talking a Good Game 136
7. The Qualities of Cubanidad: Calidad and Lucha in Baseball 159
Conclusion: Touching 'Em All: Recalling and Recounting Home Runs 183
Notes 203
Works Cited 213
Index 231