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The quality of home runs : the passion, politics, and language of Cuban baseball / Thomas F. Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Thomas F., 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Cuba.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Social aspects--Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062253
- 9781283062251
- 1283062259
- 9780822381426
- 0822381427
- OCLC:
- 308707986
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