โ Scribed by Pablo Brescia, Mariano Paz
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated.
The volume looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links among sport, nationalism, and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona โ from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace โ powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice, and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture, and society.
This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies, or sociology.
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction: The Cultural Significance of Maradona
PART I: Global Maradona
1. Maradona and Argentina: Four Takes
2. Maradona and Spain: Mythologies of the Hero Narrative
3. Maradona and Italy: The Rise and Fall of the Man on His Own
4. Maradona and Mexico: The Ecstasy and the Agony
5. Maradona and Britain: An Unforgettable Affair
PART II: Representing Maradona
6. Maradona and Literature: God Is Only Human
7. Maradona and Cinema: Biopic, Documentary, Art Film
8. Maradona and Music: Soundscapes and Echoes of the Maradonian Song
PART III: Reading and Writing Maradona
9. Spectres of Maradona: Chronicle/Fiction/Autobiography/Film
10. The Maradona Story: Tropes in Biography and Autobiography
11. Argentinian Feminisms in the Light (and Shadow) of Maradona
12. Deifying Diego: The Church of Maradona and Beyond
13. Writing Maradona
One and All
God, the Era, and the Epic
Language and Tears
Saint Diego Maradona?
M and M, to See or Not to See
Number Ten in Ten
Children of Maradona
Bibliography on Diego Maradona in Chronological Order
Index
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