Abstract
ABSTRACT This article analyses certain Argentine media landscape’s reception of worldwide football star Diego Maradona’s death, on 25 November 2020. I focused on one specific national media (the left-wing or social-democrat journal Página/12) to scrutinize how certain both male and female writers and intellectuals depict Maradona, write about his football prowess and personal affairs, praise and remembers him. The underlying hypothesis of my article is that the perception – in that aforementioned coverage – of Maradona as a class consciousness holder because of his poor background and upbringing in the Fiorito shantytown is an example of conceptual nostalgia, while actually both his professional career and personal life are better graspable through the category of group consciousness. To deepen this theoretical disquisition, I draw upon the contributions of Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács and English Cultural Critic Mark Fisher.
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