EAN: 9781433111730

BODIES OF DISCOURSE GEBUNDEN

Sports stars are omnipresent icons of popular culture. In the global age of celebrity  few
public personae enjoy greater popularity and recognition than professional athletes. Yet 
beyond their sporting achievements  athletes - from stars with near-global appeal such as
Muhammad Ali or Tiger Woods to local and national sporting heroes - embody and reflect key
political  social  and cultural discourses of our time. This anthology investigates sports
stardom in its global context across the spectrum of spectator sport: from the quest of
Japanese star athletes to exorcise the cultural demons of postwar Japan  to the Mexican pitcher
celebrating victory in the first major league baseball game played on Mexican soil  from the
naturalization of a Croatian footballer in Israel  to the marginalization of Scottish women
curlers at the Winter Olympics. Reflecting this focus  Bodies of Discourse conceptualizes the
discourses surrounding sports stars as part of an increasingly transnational and fragmented
public sphere and thus traces the economic  social  and cultural roles of these discourses 
ranging from nationalism and racism to foreign affairs and sexual politics.

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