Rite, Flesh, and Stone

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.

"The essays in this volume move swiftly and deftly across different aspects of culture—fiction and film, but also exhumations, funerals, processions, and inorganic objects. In ways that are at once surprising and innovative, this volume investigates some of the flash points of contemporary Spain."—Bécquer Seguín, Johns Hopkins University, and writer for The Nation, Slate, Dissent, The Awl, and Public Books

• IntroductionPart 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,"