Rite, Flesh, and Stone

The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020

Daniel Garc?¡a-Donoso, Antonio C??rdoba (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2021
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0219-3 (ISBN)

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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 towards 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.

Daniel GarcÍa-Donoso is an associate professor of Spanish at Catholic University of America. Antonio CÓrdoba is an associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Manhattan College.

Introduction, Antonio CÓrdoba and Daniel GarcÍa-Donoso
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 PostETA Euskadi,"
Part II: Flesh
"Capturing Death: Photography, Performance, and Bearing Witness,"
"Death, Afterlife and the Question of Autobiography (Biutiful, 2010),"
"What Does One 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,"
"After Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Death Disappearance and De-Metaphorization of 'the Other,' or 'Capitalism as Religion': A Reading of JesÚs Carrasco's La tierra que pisamos,"

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Hispanic Issues
Co-Autor	Eugenia Afinogu?®nova, Pedro Aguilera-Mellado, Ana Fern?índez-Cebri?ín
Zusatzinfo	21 illustrations
Verlagsort	Tennessee
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8265-0219-9 / 0826502199
ISBN-13	978-0-8265-0219-3 / 9780826502193
Zustand	Neuware