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Rite, Flesh, and Stone : The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture /

"How death has been conceived of and represented in Spanish culture since the second half of the twentieth century"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: García-Donoso, Daniel (Editor ), Cordoba, Antonio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Materiality, culture, and death in contemporary Spain, 1959-2020
  • Part I. Rite. Executioners and cultures of capital punishment in Franco's Spain (1959-1975)
  • State of crucifixion : tourism, Holy Week, and the sacred politics of the Cold War
  • Carlos Saura : death, orphanhood, and the commoners' transitions
  • Martyrs and saints of the Spanish Civil War era : enshrinement of the right and historical memory
  • The future of the dead : reconciliation in post-ETA Euskadi
  • Part II. Flesh. Capturing death : photography, performance, and bearing witness
  • Death, afterlife, and the question of autobiography (Biutiful, 2010)
  • What do we do with the dead? The posthumous in Fernando León's Amador
  • On dying colonialisms and postcolonial phantasies in recent Spanish cinema
  • Part III. Stone. A stone that makes them stumble : mining the lithic in Manuel Rivas's O lapis do carpinteiro
  • Encounters between memories and the present : the Muslim cemeteries in contemporary Spain
  • The forensic eulogy : science and invented traditions in the commemoration of Republican dead from the Spanish Civil War
  • De metaphorization of "the other" in the wake of modern biopolitics : a reading of Jesús Carrasco's La tierra que pisamos
  • Afterword. Politics, arts, and disrupted death rituals.