Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre:Revolution, Art, and the Representation of Sport in Cuban Visual Culture

The Visual in Sport History: Approaches, Methodologies and Sources

“…89 By contrast, Dylan Miner, for example, draws explicitly on the work of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to inform his analysis of Cuban sports posters and photographs. 90 Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry apply discourse analysis and cultural studies to explore the ways in which photographic and other media representations of the bodies of different groups, including sports stars, are constructed and performed within the context of visual-and discursive-mediated content. They point up the ways in which images of individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages.…”