Bones Heritage. Death as a National Appropriation

Abstract

The appropriation of celebrated ossuaries of some writers and their recent mediatic searches, more specifically of glories of the Spanish literature, and by extension, Hispanic, like Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca, died of very diverse causes but searched until the obsession for a long time. It is about identifying these searches with the image of Spain and the collective identity of a nation, patrimonializing some possible missing bones, and trying to deduce cultural identity-agglutinating consequences in a postnationalist time but of clear inertia, by past projection, of nineteenth-century nationalism.