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.

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)

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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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Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America: An Introduction; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete PART I: SPORTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM 1. Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commodity; Pablo Alabarces 2. The Anti-National Game? An Exploration of Women's Soccer in Latin America; Joshua Nadel 3. (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica Sergio; Villena Fiengo 4. Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste PART II: SPORTS AS INTRA-NATIONAL MEDIATION 5. The Player of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News; Vander Casaqui 6. Nationalism and Sport Policies in Brazil; Renata Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega 7. The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat: Bodies, Voices and Spaces of Cuban Baseball in Sport Documentaries; Juan Carlos Rodríguez PART III: SPORTS AND ALTERITY 8. "Can I Please Have aRamp with that Gold Medal?": Colombian Paralympics and the Prosthetic Lim(b)inality of Nation; Chloe Rutter-Jensen 9. Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico; Hortensia Moreno: 10. "You Have the Right to Surf!": Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Peru; Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee PART IV: SPORTS AS TRANSNATIONAL MEDIATION 11. Guillermo Vilas, "Tennis's Sexiest Man": The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press 1974-1982; Robert McKee Irwin 12. The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball; Yago Colás 13. Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the US; Juan Poblete