Philosophers such as Octavio Paz and Emilio Uranga theorize death grounded in Mexican circumstances to show an intimate relational dynamic with life. In their view, death is embedded in the everydayness of the living. Carlos A. Sánchez, in “Death and the Colonial Difference,” explains that the Mexican idea of death reveals much about the life and the situatedness of those who subscribe to the relational dynamic between life and death. Death is linked to the living, especially for those who are situated in inferiorized positions. In the accounts promoted by Paz and by Uranga, the historical and social conditions of lived experience provide the context for how death is conceived, and, subsequently, treated. They advance Mexican conceptions of death and provide interesting perspectives into how some colonized peoples are resisting narrow narratives of death. This is to say that their approaches do not grant the dominant assumption that death is...
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April 01 2024
A Unique Response to Death: Day of the Dead Fiestas and Communal Articulations of Resistance
The Pluralist (2024) 19 (1): 31–39.
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Denise Meda-Lambru; A Unique Response to Death: Day of the Dead Fiestas and Communal Articulations of Resistance. The Pluralist 1 April 2024; 19 (1): 31–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19446489.19.1.04
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