Preface Acknowledgements Part I Death & Dying in Hispanic Creative Essays 1 La muerte de la tierra/The Death of the World [Homeland], RoseMary Salum, MA, Translated by Debra D. Andrist, PhD 2 En la vicinidad de la muerte/Nearness of Death, Jorge Chavarro, MD, Translated by Debra D. Andrist, PhD 3 The Passage of J.S.D., Gwendolyn Díaz Ridgeway PhD Part II Death & Dying in Societies and Religions in Hispanic Worlds 4 After We're Gone: An Overview of, and Introduction to, Death, Dying, Grief and Funeral Practices in Latin American Reality & Art Forms, Debra D. Andrist, PhD 5 La muerte/Death, Then & Now, Patricia González Gómes-Cásseres, PhD. Translated by Debra D.

Andrist, PhD 6 Death/Ikú and the Spirits in Afro-Cuban Religions, Patricia González Gómes-Cásseres, PhD 7 Recasting Catholicism in the Face of Death: Las Casas, Zavala, and Romero, John Francis Burke, PhD Part III Death & Dying in Hispanic Visual Arts 8 Euthanasia and Bioethics within the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT): The film, "Mar adentro/The Sea Inside, Elizabeth White Coscio, PhD 9 Death as Impetus for Art for Pablo Picasso, Enrique Mallén, PhD (reprint from The Body) 10 Life, Death & the Word: Liminal Syntax and Semantics of Picasso's Poetry, Enrique Mallén, PhD 11 Luisa Rivera's Graphic Representations/Interpretations of Death and Dying in Cien años de soledad (in Contrast with Hers for Amor en los tiempos de cólera), Stephen Miller, PhD Part IV Death & Dying in Hispanic Literature 12 In this Madhouse: Myth, Message and Kaleidoscopic Kin in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lauren M.P. Derby, MA (reprint from The Body) 13 Vision and Confession: The Murder Mysteries by Jorge Luis Borges, Haiqing Sun, PhD 14 Nellie Campobello: Notes Towards a Necronarrative, Eduardo Cerdán. Translated by Debra D. Andrist, PhD Conclusions & Reflections The Editor and Contributors Index.