Aquí no mueren los muertos = : the dead wonœt die here / Melina Balcázar ; prólogo de Georges Didi-Hubermann ; traductora : Maria Cristina Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balcázar Moreno, Melina, author.

Contributor:

Didi-Huberman, Georges, writer of foreword.

Hall, María Cristina, 1991- translator.

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, issuing body.

Series:

Colección Polifemo (Argonáutica (Firm)) ; 9.

Colección Polifemo ; 9

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Death in photography.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Postmortem photography.

Portrait photography.

Physical Description:

182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Dead wonœt die here

Place of Publication:

Monterrey, México : Argonáutica Editorial : UANL : Editorial Universitaria UANL, 2021.

Language Note:

In Spanish with English translation.

Summary:

This book of essays explores the relationship between photography and grief in Mexico. "The dead won't die here" is inspired by a chilhood anecdote of Melina Balcázar. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, the author and her brother were required to play outside the house as the deceased relatives in particular the older sister visited those who were still alive in the family home. The author explains what it meant to alternate between the Catholic Church, to which her mother went, and the Mexican Patriarchal Church, where she went with her father and that teach a spirituality made of syncretism, together with the conviction that bridges can be established, through trance, possession, and clairvoyance, with the dead. Unlike this spirituality lived in childhood, the spiritism that Balcázar explains used mechanical means such as photography to formalize, far from the principles of faith, a contact based on technique and reasoning with the hereafter.

Contents:

AQUÍ NO MUEREN LOS MUERTOS: Con los ojos, hablar a los muertos / George Didi Hubermann

Deciles que la muerte no existe

"Te escribo una carta, a tí que estás en los cielos..."

Cerrar(te) los ojos. De la muerte y los milagros

Documentos e imágenes

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THE DEAD WON'T DIE HERE: With your eyes, speaking to the dead / George Didi Hubermann Tell them death does not exist

"I write this letter to you, who are in heaven..." To close (your) eyes. Of death and miracles

Documents and images.

Notes:

English Title from page [93]

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786079859114

6079859114

OCLC:

1262696823