Vol.45: Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Ed. Antonio Córdoba, Daniel García-Donoso
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.
Introduction
Materiality, Culture, and Death in Contemporary Spain
Antonio Córdoba, and Daniel García-Donoso
- Executioners and Cultures of Capital Punishment in Franco's Spain (1959–1975)
Ana Fernández-Cebrián - State of Crucifixion: Tourism, Holy Week, and the Sacred Politics of the Cold War
Eugenia Afinoguénova - Carlos Saura: Death, Orphanhood, and the Commoners' Transitions
Angel Loureiro - The Portuguese Inquisition and Colonial Expansion: The “Honor” of Being Tried by the Holy Office
Bruno Feitler - The Future of the Dead: Reconciliation in Post-ETA Euskadi
Anabel Martín - Capturing Death: Photography, Performance, and Bearing Witness
Patty Keller - Death, Afterlife, and the Question of Autobiography (Biutiful, 2010)
Cristina Moreiras-Menor - What Do We Do with the Dead? The Posthumus in Fernando León's Amador
Daniel García-Donoso - On Dying Colonialism and Postcolonial Phantasies in Recent Spanish Cinema
N. Michelle Murray - A Stone That Makes Them Stumble: Mining the Lithic in Manuel Riva's O lapis do carpinteiro
William Wiestenz - Encounters between Memories and the Present: The Muslim Cemeteries in Contemporary Spain
Jordi Moreras and Sol Tarrés - The Forensic Eulogy: Science and Invented Traditions in the Commemoration of Republican Dead from the Spanish Civil War
Layla Renshaw - De-metaphorization of "the Other" in the Wake of Modern Biopolitics: A Reading of Jesús Carrasco's La tierra que pisamos
Pedro Aguilera-Mellado
Afterword
Politics, Arts, and Disrupted Death Rituals
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini