The quality of home runs : the passion, politics, and language of Cuban baseball /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carter, Thomas F., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Duke backfile
Subjects:
Baseball > Cuba.
Baseball > Social aspects > Cuba.
Base-ball > Cuba.
Base-ball > Aspect social > Cuba.
PERFORMING ARTS > Circus.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Baseball.
Baseball > Social aspects.
Cuba.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the theoretical "stretching" of sport and the state
  • Baseball and the language of contention
  • Circling the base paths : baseball, migration, and the Cuban nation
  • The spectacle of and for Cuba
  • The state in play : the politics of Cuba's national sport
  • Fans, rivalries, and the play of Cuba
  • Talking a good game
  • The qualities of Cubanidad : calidad and lucha in baseball
  • Conclusion : touching 'em all : recalling and recounting home runs.

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