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  • Vol. 35: En busca de una caracterización de la ironía verbal en español
  • Vol. 34: Regiones inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica
  • Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales
  • Vol. 32: Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media
  • Vol. 31: The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain
  • Vol 30: Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina
  • Vol. 29: Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture
  • Vol. 28: Contemporary Brazilian Cities, Culture, and Resistance
  • Vol. 27: Huellas de lo trágico en la cultura española moderna
  • Vol. 26: Migraciones, derechos humanos y acciones locales
  • Vol. 25: Confined Women: The Walls of Female Space in Early Modern Spain
  • Vol.24: Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World
  • Vol.23: Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World
  • Vol.22: Vestigios del pasado: Los sitios de la memoria y sus representaciones políticas y artísticas
  • Vol.21: Ensayo / Error. Arte y escritura experimentales en España (1960-1980)
  • Vol.20: Freakish Encounters
  • Vol.19: Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España
  • Vol.18: Gender and the Politics of Literature
  • Vol.17: Conflicto armado y políticas de la memoria en el Perú
  • Vol.16: Amazonian Literatures
  • Vol.15: Writing Monsters
  • Vol.14: Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights
  • Vol.13: Whose Voice is This? Iberian and Latin American Antigones
  • Vol.12: Troubled Waters
  • Vol.11: Memory and Its Discontents
  • Vol.10: Armed Resistance
  • Vol.9: Hybrid Storyspaces
  • Vol.8: Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education
  • Vol.7: Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Vol.6: Huidobro's Futurity
  • Vol.5: Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  • Vol.4: Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies
  • Vol.3: Latin American Urban Cultural Production
  • Vol.2: Estudios Hispánicos
  • Vol.1: Debating Hispanic Studies

Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Ed. John Beusterien and Constance Cortez

Introduction: The Politics of Remembrance
John Beusterien and Constance Cortez

  1. To Shepherd the Empire: The Catafalque of Charles V in Mexico City
    Elizabeth Olton
  2. The After-life of Inka Rulers: Andean Death before and after Spanish Colonization
    Carolyn Dean
  3. “To Live in this City is to Die”: Death and Architecture in Colonial Cuzco, Peru
    Michael Schreffler
  4. Posthumous Portraits of Children in Early Modern Spain and Mexico
    Elisa C. Mandell
  5. Meditating Hell: An Image of Satan from Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises
    Frédéric Conrod
  6. A Burning Heart Can Save Your Soul: Images of the Sacred Heart in New Spain
    Lauren Grace Kilroy
  7. When an Image is Not Worth a Thousand Words: Divergent Codes of Representation of Afterlife in Francisco de Quevedo’s Satirical Works and the Art of Hieronymus Bosch 
    Carmen Pereira-Muro
  8. The Spectacle of Death in Early Colonial New Spain in the Manuscrito del aperreamiento
    Lori Boornazian Diel
  9. The Exemplary Death of Lope de Aguirre
    Mariana C. Zinni (Translated by Deborah Truhan)
  10. The Spectacle of Torture and Death in A Topography and General History of Algiers
    Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Afterword: Hispanism—disciplina moriendi
Jacques Lezra

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