The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of sport / text / body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America, Spain and the chicano population of the USA. As such, it opens a path for further study of an area that is experiencing significant growth in the international academic community.

Chapter 1 Patriotic Pastimes: The Role of Sport in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Keith Brewster; Chapter 2 Latin America and the Olympic Ideal of Progress: An Athlete's Perspective, Frances Houghton; Chapter 3 Constructing Athletic Agents in the Chicano/a Culture of Los Angeles, Hilary A. Braysmith; Chapter 4 Golden But Not Brown: Oscar De La Hoya and the Complications of Culture, Manhood, and Boxing, Fernando Delgado; Chapter 5 Football: Forging Nationhood and Masculinities in Costa Rica, Carlos Sandoval-García; Chapter 6 The Place of Women in Argentinian Football, María Graciela Rodríguez; Chapter 7 The Manifesto of a Baseball-playing Country: Cuba, Baseball, and Poetry in the Late Nineteenth Century, Thomas F. Carter; Chapter 8 Reading the Game: The Role of Football in Peruvian Literature, David Wood; Chapter 9 Sport: A Literary Referent in Catalonia 1920-36, Anna Poch Gasau; Chapter 10 Spanish Identities in the European Press: The Case of Football Writing, David Hand, Liz Crolley;