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. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFSL4; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572. . 2014. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: By the Grace of God
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1442647574
ISBN 13: 9781442647572
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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 Espa�a 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.

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William Viestenz is an assistant professor of Spanish and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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