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Summary:

"Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the media, publishing houses, bookstores, museums, and archives) have increasingly promoted the pleasures, pertinence, and power of graphic narrative to an ever-expanding readership - all in an area of cultural production that was held, until recently, to be the stuff of child's play, the unenlightened, or the unsophisticated. This volume takes up the overarching charge of examining how contemporary comics in Spain have confronted questions of cultural legitimacy through serious and timely engagement with diverse themes, forms, and approaches - a collective undertaking which, while keenly in step with transnational theoretical trends, foregrounds local, regional, and national dimensions particular to the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Spanish milieu. From memory and history to the economic and the political, and from the body and personal space to mental geography, the essays collected in Consequential Art account for several key ways in which a range of comics practitioners in Spain have deployed the image-text connection and alternative ways of seeing to interrogate some of the most significant cultural issues that Spain has faced since 1990"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Comics in Contemporary Spain; NOTES; WORKS CITED; Part One: Comics and Historical Memory; 2 Drawing (on) Spanish History; NOTES; WORKS CITED; 3 Comics, History, and Memory in the '90s: Las memoriasde Amorós; Memoir; Popular Genres; Historical Fables; Showing (the Glass through which We See) History; Overcoming Obstacles / Blazing Trails; NOTES; WORKS CITED; COMICS CITED
• 4 "Shadows Have No Voice": Democratic Memory in Felipe Hernández Cava and Federico del Barrio's El artefactoperverso (1996) and Francisco and Miguel Gallardo'sUn largo silencio (1997)NOTES; WORKS CITED; Part Two: Comics and Economic Crisis; 5 Building a Home for Crisis Narrative: Intermediality and Comic(s) Pedagogy in Aleix Saló's Españistán Project; NOTES; WORKS CITED; 6 Urban Ecology and Comics Journalism in Jorge Carriónand Sagar Forniés's Barcelona: Los vagabundosde la chatarra (2015); Comics and the City: Towards an Urban Ecology; Barcelona: Shadows of Design and Urban Wilderness
• "El cómic será en color": Journalistic Process and Composition; Conclusion: Comics and Ecology in Colour; NOTES; WORKS CITED; Part Three: Comics and Personhood; 7 Post-op in the Real World: Cancer and Queer Resistancein Isabel Franc and Susanna Martín's Alicia en unmundo real (2011); NOTE; WORKS CITED; 8 How to Explain Comics to a Dead Hare: Intertextuality and Crisis in Rosana Antolí's Neo-surrealist Graphic Novel Pareidolia (2014); Introduction: Pareidolia's Radical Intertextuality as Critique; Joseph Beuys and Anti-rationalism: The Artist as Shaman-Healer
• Deadly Intertextualities: Suicide, Comics, and Rock 'n' Roll; Bas Jan Ader and Ziggy Stardust: On Falling, Impersonation, and the Fragility of It All; Conclusion: The Final (Magic) Dance; NOTES; WORKS CITED; List of Contributors; Index

Contributors:

Amago, Samuel, 1974- , editor

Marr, Matthew J. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Consequential art (Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019 — ISBN 1487505035; OCLC Number 1089012453)

Related Series:

Toronto Iberic

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — Spain — History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc. — Social aspects — Spain

Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc. — Social aspects

Spain

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6775 .C66 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781487531386 (electronic book)
1487531389 (electronic book)
9781487531362 (electronic book)
1487531362 (electronic book)
9781487505035 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1487505035 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1107879290