By the grace of God : Francoist Spain and the sacred roots of political imagination / William Viestenz.

Using Franco's Spain and la Espana sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity's own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Viestenz, William (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Series:Toronto Iberic.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: La España Sagrada as a Political Category
  • 2 "He aquí una plenitud española": Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism
  • 3 Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining Post-War Stimmung
  • 4 Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception Against Sacred Forms
  • 5 The Eternal Present of Sacred Time In illo tempore
  • 6 "De-sacralization" and "Sacro-genesis," or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time
  • 7 Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty
  • 8 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth.