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Summary:

"The essays included in Spanish Graphic Narratives represent a much-needed step forward in turning Spanish graphic novels and comics into a rigorous field of study that deserves to be taken seriously when exploring 21st-century Spanish culture and society. This book shows how relevant Spanish sequential art has become to the reformulation of social issues--such as migration, cultural identity, gender, and the relations between historical and personal memory--into a format well suited for newer generations."--Luis Guadaño, Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Old Dominion University, USA Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spains rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936-39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939-75), and progressive contemporary politics, both the recent graphic novel production in Spain and the thematic focal points of the essays here are greatly varied. Topics of particular interest include studies on the subject of historical and personal memory; representations of gender, race, and identity; and texts dealing with Spanish customs, traditions, and the current political situation in Spain. These overarching topics share many points of contact with one another, and this interrelationship (as well as the many points of divergence) is illustrative of the uniqueness, diversity, and paradoxes of literary and cultural production in modern-day Spain, thus illuminating our understanding of Spanish national consciousness in the present day. Collin McKinney is Associate Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University, USA. David F. Richter is Associate Professor of Spanish at Utah State University, USA

Table of Contents:

• 1. Graphic Spain: From Aleluyas to the "Second Boom"
• 2. Espacios en blanco: Historical Memory, Defeat, and the Comics Imaginary
• 3. Memory, Amnesia, and Forgetting: Graphic Representations of a Chronic Disease in 20th- and 21st-Century Spain
• 4. Recovering the Irrecoverable: "The Memory of What Matters" in Three Works by Paco Roca
• 5. The Persistent Memories of Federico Garcia Lorca: History, Poetry, and Spanish Graphic Narratives
• 6. Polemic Collision: Race, Immigration, and Gender Violence in Olimpita
• 7. "I hate being Chinese" : Migration, Cultural Identity, and Autobiography in Quan Zhou Wus Gazpacho agridulce
• 8. Black and Basque Power: Visualizing Race and Resistance in Black is Beltza. 9. Gender, Genre, and Retribution in Rayco Pulidos Lamia: A Historical Novel for the Present Day
• 10. Maternal Life Writing in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Narratives: From Blog to Book Marina Bettaglio
• 11. "In this country, the past never dies" : Superheroes, Democracy, and the Culture of the Spanish Transition in Garcia!
• 12. The Right to Barcelona: Spectrality, Unbuiltness, and El fantasma de Gaudi
• 13. The Post-15M Condition: Liminality and Multitude in Spanish Graphic Narratives.

Contributors:

McKinney, Collin S. , editor

Richter, David F., 1977- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels

Subjects:

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Spain

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Call Numbers:

PN6775 .S63 2020eb

ISBNs:

9783030568207 (electronic bk.)
3030568202 (electronic bk.)
9783030568191 [Invalid]
3030568199 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1225066576