Rite, Flesh, and Stone
Title | Rite, Flesh, and Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Córdoba |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0826502202 |
Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds; furthermore, they explore how dying flesh and corpses are processed by means of biopolitical technologies and the ethics of (self-)care, and how the vibrant and breathing materiality of the living is transformed into stone and analogous kinds of tangible, empirical presence that engender new cartographies of memory. Each coming from a specific disciplinary perspective, authors in this volume problematize conventional ideas about the place of death in contemporary Western societies and cultures using Spain as a case study. Materials analyzed here—ranging from cinematic and literary fictions, to historical archives and anthropological and ethnographic sources—make explicit a dynamic scenario where actors embody a variety of positions toward death and dying, the political production of mortality, and the commemoration of the dead. Ultimately, the goal of this volume is to chart the complex network in which the disenchantment of death and its reenchantment coexist, and biopolitical control over secularized bodies overlaps with new avatars of the religious and non-theistic desires for memorialization and transcendence.
Rite, Flesh, and Stone
Title | Rite, Flesh, and Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel García-Donoso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780826502186 |
How death has been conceived of and represented in Spanish culture since the second half of the twentieth century
Patriarchy’s Remains
Title | Patriarchy’s Remains PDF eBook |
Author | Erin K. Hogan |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0228021472 |
Something is rotten in the state of Spain. The uninterred corpse of a patriarchal figure populates the visual landscapes of Iberian cinemas. He is chilled, drugged, perfumed, ventilated, presumed dead, speared in the cranium, and worse. Analyzing a series of Iberian cinematic dark comedies from the 1950s to the present day, Patriarchy’s Remains argues that the cinematic trope of the patriarchal death symbolizes the lingering remains of the Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939–75). These films, created as satirical responses to persisting economic, social, and political issues, demonstrate that Spain’s transition to democracy following the Francoist period is an incomplete and ongoing process. Within the theme of patriarchal decay, the significance of the figure differs across cinematic representations, from his indispensability to his obstructionism and exploitation. Erin Hogan traces the prevalence of patriarchal death by analyzing its relationship with the surrounding characters who must depend on the deceased. Hogan demonstrates how the patriarch’s persistence in film both reveals and challenges an array of discriminations and inequalities in the cinematic grotesque tradition, in Iberian cinemas more broadly, and in Iberian society as a whole. Despite Spain’s ongoing transition towards democratic pluralism, Patriarchy’s Remains serves as a reminder that the remnants of an entrenched although not interred patriarchal culture continue to haunt Iberian society.
The Soul of the Nation
Title | The Soul of the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Gregorio Alonso |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2024-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1805395998 |
Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring "Two Spains." The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.
Améfrica in Letters
Title | Améfrica in Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2022-11-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826505155 |
Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin American mainland. To capture a sense of the variety of their contributions, this book spans Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and the Southern Cone—highlighting the transcontinental nature of the legacy of Black writing and its impact beyond national boundaries. The writers examined in the volume engage with regional intellectual frameworks while putting into circulation a demand for a recalibration of the Hispanophone and Lusophone contexts in which they and other Afrodescendants reside.
Faking Death
Title | Faking Death PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Cousineau-Levine |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2003-05-27 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0773570950 |
Faking Death includes 16 colour reproductions and 150 duotones by artists such as Raymonde April, Jeff Wall, Lynne Cohen, Charles Gagnon, Evergon, Michel Lambeth, Thaddeus Holownia, Geoffrey James, Geneviève Cadieux, Shelley Niro, Diana Thorneycroft, Jin-me Yoon, Ian Wallace, and Ken Lum. By bringing together this many Canadian works "Faking Death" provides a compelling visual introduction to one of Canada's most vibrant and internationally recognized artistic media. It is an invaluable tool for curators, artists, teachers, students, and scholars in art history, fine arts, Canadian studies, film, communications, literature, and cultural studies.
Spirit & Flesh
Title | Spirit & Flesh PDF eBook |
Author | Fakir Musafar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783935581905 |