Escritura y muerte

Death, since time immemorial, has been a socially and psychologically tabooed subject, and the cemetery, as a space dedicated to materializing this taboo, resists the passage of time. The principle of finitude permeates every corridor of the cemetery, amidst tombstones, flowers, and cypresses-the tree whose creeping, semi-porous roots allow the dead to 'breathe' and whose cylindrical, elongated shape serves as a bridge to elevate souls to the heavens. Tombstones, in this context, become the focal point of our attention. The objective of this study is to investigate the necrological linguistic landscape of Córdoba (Argentina) through an analysis of selected epitaphs from the San Jerónimo Cemetery in the city. Collecting the words that circulate there and observing how the dead and their mourners engage in dialogue forms the core of our inquiry. We posit that these elements constitute part of the city's linguistic landscape, carved out as a distinct domain separate from other social spheres. The written word on these epitaphs is conceived as an act of resistance against the material finitude of death: it asserts the right to an existence where language becomes the vehicle of eternity. In this sense, studying the linguistic landscape through the lens of epitaphs entails recognizing a unique form of urban spatial appropriation, where writing indexes presences that no longer belong to the physical world

Art · Humanities · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Cultural and Mythological Studies · Philosophical and Cultural Analysis