Death & dying in Hispanic worlds: the nexus of religions, cultural traditions, and the arts

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Hispanic Worlds -- PART I. Death & -- Dying in Hispanic Creative Essays -- 1. La muerte de la tierra/The Death of the World [Homeland] -- 2. En la vecindad de muerte/Nearness of Death -- 3. The Passage of J.S.D. -- PART II. Death & -- Dying in Societies and Religions in Hispanic Worlds -- 4. After We're Gone: An Overview of, and Introduction to, Death, Dying, Grief and Funeral Practices in Latin American Reality & -- Art Forms -- 5. La muerte/Death, Then & -- Now -- 6. Death/Ikú and the Spirits in Afro-Cuban Religions -- 7. Recasting Catholicism in the Face of Death: La Casas, Zavala, and Romero -- PART III. Death & -- Dying in Hispanic Visual Arts -- 8. Euthanasia and Bioethics within the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT): The film, Mar adentro/The Sea Inside -- 9. Death as Impetus for Art for Pablo Picasso -- 10. Life, Death & -- the Word: Liminal Syntax and Semantics of Picasso's Poetry -- 11. Luisa Rivera's Graphic Representations/Interpretations of Death and Dying in Cien años de soledad (in Contrast with Hers for Amor en los tiempos de cólera) -- PART IV. Death & -- Dying in Hispanic Literature -- 12. In This Madhouse: Myth Message and Kaleidoscopic Kin in Gabriel Garcia Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude -- 13. Vision and Confession: The Murder Mysteries by Jorge Luis Borges -- 14. Nellie Campobello: Notes Towards a Necronarrative -- Conclusions and Reflections -- The Editor and Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.