Consequential Art : Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain / Samuel Amago, Matthew J. Marr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amago, Samuel, editor.

Marr, Matthew J., editor.

Series:

Toronto Iberic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

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

Spain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs have been 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 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 that, 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 have deployed the image-text connection and alternative methods of seeing to interrogate some of the most significant cultural issues in Spain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List Of Figures

Acknowledgments

1. Comics In Contemporary Spain / Amago, Samuel / Marr, Matthew J.

Part One. Comics And Historical Memory

2. Drawing (On) Spanish History / Amago, Samuel

3. Comics, History, And Memory In The '90s: Las Memorias De Amorós / Pérez Del Solar, Pedro

4. "Shadows Have No Voice": Democratic Memory In Felipe Hernández Cava And Federico Del Barrio's El Artefacto Perverso (1996) And Francisco And Miguel Gallardo's Un Largo Silencio (1997) / Dapena, Xavier

Part Two: Comics And Economic Crisis

5. Building A Home For Crisis Narrative: Intermediality And Comic(s) Pedagogy In Aleix Saló's Españistán Project / Marr, Matthew J.

6. Urban Ecology And Comics Journalism In Jorge Carrión And Sagar Forniés's Barcelona: Los Vagabundos De La Chatarra (2015) / Martínez, Christine M.

Part Three: Comics And Personhood

7. Post-Op In The Real World: Cancer And Queer Resistance In Isabel Franc And Susanna Martín's Alicia En Un Mundo Real (2011) / Difilippo, Emily

8. How To Explain Comics To A Dead Hare: Intertextuality And Crisis In Rosana Antolí's Neo-Surrealist Graphic Novel Pareidolia (2014) / Ledesma, Eduardo

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-3136-2

1-4875-3138-9

OCLC:

1107879290