City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales from Granada and a Changing Spain [Hardcover]

Candace Slater (Author)

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Publication Date: September 10, 1990

Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusses both the stories she tape-recorded in the streets of Granada and the friar's official biography. She underscores the essential pluralism of the tales, their undercurrent of resistance to institutional authority, and their deep concern for the relationship between past and present. Bearing witness to the subtlety and resilience of even the most apparently conservative folk-literary forms, these stories are not only about the role of saints and miracles in an increasingly secular and industrial society but, first and foremost, also about the legacy of the Franco years.

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"Extremely exciting for the field of Spanish and European cultural studies, which . . . has tended to overlook issues of the religious imagination, narrative, and folklore."--Ruth Behar, author of Santa Maria del Monte: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village

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"Extremely exciting for the field of Spanish and European cultural studies, which . . . has tended to overlook issues of the religious imagination, narrative, and folklore." (Ruth Behar, author of Santa Maria del Monte: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village)

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Product Details

Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (September 10, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520068157
ISBN-13: 978-0520068155
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,289,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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