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Rounds de sombra: El boxeo en la crónica deportiva de Tablada, Garibay y Monsiváis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2018

Marco Antonio Martínez*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, US
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Abstract

El boxeo mexicano ha generado una larga tradición literaria y gráfica que ha sido poco estudiada. Este ensayo analiza las crónicas “La última gigantomaquia,” de José Juan Tablada, “Las glorias del gran Púas,” de Ricardo Garibay, y “La hora del consumo de los orgullos,” de Carlos Monsiváis. En ellas el boxeo sirve como espacio donde se representan y resuelven simbólicamente tensiones políticas y sociales, nacionales y transnacionales. Además, como industria deportiva el boxeo es el espacio en donde se experimentaron las prácticas y condiciones a las que se enfrentará el deportista profesional dentro del capitalismo global. Por otra parte, debido a la violencia que conlleva, el boxeo ha sido el espacio donde se representa la masculinidad moderna. Las tres crónicas que conforman este ensayo crean un arco temporal que recorre el siglo XX mexicano y muestran la relación del deporte con el periodismo, la política y el mercado global.

The Mexican boxing tradition has generated a long line of literary and graphical works that have not been studied. This article focuses on three boxing chronicles: “La última gigantomaquia,” by José Juan Tablada; “Las glorias del gran Púas,” by Ricardo Garibay; and “La hora del consumo de los orgullos,” by Carlos Monsiváis. In these chronicles, boxing serves as a symbolic space in which social and political tensions are resolved. Moreover, as a sports industry boxing is a place where the professional sportsman faces the practices and conditions of global capitalism. As a result of the violence involved, boxing has also become a space that represents modern masculinity. The three works that inform this article thus arc through the Mexican twentieth century, revealing the relationship of boxing, journalism, politics, and the global market.

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