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Mapping America's Sporting Landscape: A Case Study of Three Statues

2011; Routledge; Volume: 28; Issue: 8-9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09523367.2011.567776

1743-9035

Maureen M. Smith,

American Sports and Literature

This article examines three sport statues in the United States: Pat Tillman, National Football League player and American soldier; Tommie Smith and John Carlos, 1968 Olympians; and Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympic Games. Each statue was analysed in material culture terms as a hegemonic representative of the dominant types of sport statue found in the USA and in terms of their role in American cultural sporting memory, heritage construction and myth-making. Key themes include their forms and functions, their processes of construction, the selection of the artist and the multiple readings of the statue by the public.