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.

"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) "This book is a welcome contribution to a tremendously important but inexplicably neglected field in Latin American popular cultures. The politics of sport have accompanied the processes of urbanization and modernization, and shaped national, gendered, and class identities in Latin America since late nineteenth century. Nowadays, sports' transnational commodification poses new and complex queries that demand our attention." - Abril Trigo, Ohio State University, USA and author of Crisis y Transfiguracion de los Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos "I know of no other book that offers such a rich, diverse, and enlightening collection of essays about the relationship between sports and nationalism in any region of the world. This is a path breaking collection of essays that is rare in its breadth, the quality of its scholarship, and the comprehensiveness of its treatment of various sports in Latin/o America. It sets a new standard for future studies on the politics and culture of sports in the region." - Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon, USA and author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850 1935

• 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