Research Catalog

Title

Aquí no mueren los muertos = The dead won't die here / Melina Balcázar ; prólogo de Georges Didi-Hubermann ; traductora, María Cristina Hall.

Author

Balcázar Moreno, Melina

Publication

[Monterrey, México] : Argonáutica : UANL, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Editorial Universitaria UANL, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• Hall, María Cristina, 1991-
• Didi-Huberman, Georges
• Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, issuing body

Description

182 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 21 cm.

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 siste 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.

Series Statement

Colección Polifemo ; 9

Uniform Title

Colección Polifemo (Argonáutica (Firm)) ; 9.

Alternative Title

Dead won't die here

Subject

• Rulfo, Juan
• Postmortem photography
• Spirit photography
• Grief > Mexico
• Spiritualism > Mexico
• Grief in literature
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Portrait photography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In Spanish with English translation.

Contents

• AQUÍ NO MUEREN LOS MUERTOS: Con los ojos, hablar a los muertos / Georges Didi-Hubermann -- Decidles que la muerte no existe -- "Te escribo esta carta a ti que estás en los cielos..." -- Cerrar(te) los ojos : de la muerte y las imágenes -- Documentos e imágenes.
• THE DEAD WON'T DIE HERE: With eyes speaking to the dead / Georges Didi-Hubermann -- Tell them death does not exist -- "I write this letter to you, who are in heaven..." -- To close (your) eyes : on death and images -- Documents and images.

Call Number

JQD 22-200

ISBN

• 9786079859114
• 6079859114
• 9786072713017
• 6072713017

LCCN

2021360680

OCLC

1262696823

Author

Balcázar Moreno, Melina, author.

Title

Aquí no mueren los muertos = The dead won't die here / Melina Balcázar ; prólogo de Georges Didi-Hubermann ; traductora, María Cristina Hall.

Publisher

[Monterrey, México] : Argonáutica : UANL, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Editorial Universitaria UANL, 2020.

Edition

Primera edición.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Colección Polifemo ; 9

Colección Polifemo (Argonáutica (Firm)) ; 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In Spanish with English translation.

Added Author

Hall, María Cristina, 1991- translator.

Didi-Huberman, Georges, writer of foreword.

Container of (expression): Balcázar Moreno, Melina. Aquí no mueren los muertos.

Container of (expression): Balcázar Moreno, Melina. Aquí no mueren los muertos. English.

Container of (expression): Balcázar Moreno, Melina. Cerrar(te) los ojos.

Container of (expression): Balcázar Moreno, Melina. Cerrar(te) los ojos. English.

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQD 22-200