03867nam 2200685 450 991046001970332120200520144314.01-4426-6858-X10.3138/9781442668584(CKB)3710000000248654(EBL)3294599(SSID)ssj0001375599(PQKBManifestationID)11807270(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001375599(PQKBWorkID)11336220(PQKB)11123439(MiAaPQ)EBC4669178(CEL)448654(OCoLC)893231713(CaBNVSL)slc00235102(MiAaPQ)EBC3294599(DE-B1597)465455(OCoLC)891591019(DE-B1597)9781442668584(Au-PeEL)EBL4669178(CaPaEBR)ebr11255724(EXLCZ)99371000000024865420160914h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBy the grace of God Francoist Spain and the sacred roots of political imagination /William ViestenzToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2014.©20141 online resource (236 p.)Toronto Iberic ;141-4426-4757-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 4. Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo’s Sovereign Exception -- 5. The Eternal Present of Sacred Time -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Though neither king nor priest, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco nevertheless conceptualized his right to sovereignty around a political theology in which national identity resembled a sacred cult. Using Franco’s Spain and la España 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.William Viestenz shows how imagining national identity as a sacred absolute within a pluralistic, multicultural state leads to dictatorship, scapegoating, and exceptional violence. Using novels and poetry from the Catalan literary tradition and stalwarts of the Castilian canon, his analysis demonstrates that the sacred is a concept that spills over into key areas of secular political imagination.By the Grace of God offers an original theory of the sacred that challenges our understanding of twentieth-century political thought.Toronto Iberic ;14.Spanish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismReligion and politicsSpainHistory20th centuryReligion and literatureSpainHistory20th centurySpainPolitics and government1939-1975Electronic books.Spanish literatureHistory and criticism.Religion and politicsHistoryReligion and literatureHistory860.9/382Viestenz William941943MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460019703321By the grace of God2125345UNINA