Libro teórico en inglés encuadernado en cartoné, con ediciones variantes en rústica y en formato digital (eBook: PDF).
Ensayo sobre el cómic español contemporáneo.
CONTENIDOS:
p. 1: Introduction.
p. 3: 1 Graphic Spain: "From Aleluyas to the 'Second Boom'”, Collin McKinney and David F. Richter.
p. 27: Part I Memories, Historical and Personal
p. 29: 2 "Espacios en blanco: Historical Memory, Defeat, and the Comics Imaginary", Lena Tahmassian
p. 47: 3 "Memory, Amnesia, and Forgetting: Graphic Representations of a Chronic Disease in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Spain", Fernando Simón Abad
p. 67: 4 "Recovering the Irrecoverable: 'The Memory of What Matters' in Three Works by Paco Roca", Diego Batista
p. 85: 5 "The Persistent Memories of Federico García Lorca: History, Poetry, and Spanish Graphic Narratives", David F. Richter
p. 117: Part II Transforming Identities: Race, Gender, Immigration
p. 119: 6 "Polemic Collision: Race, Immigration, and Gender Violence in Olimpita", Jeffrey K. Coleman
p. 139: 7 "'I Hate Being Chinese': Migration, Cultural Identity, and Autobiography in Quan Zhou Wu’s Gazpacho agridulce", Adrián Collado
p. 159: 8 "Black and Basque Power: Visualizing Race and Resistance in Black is Beltza", N. Michelle Murray
p. 183: 9 "Gender, Genre, and Retribution in Rayco Pulido’s Lamia: A Historical Novel for the Present Day", Collin McKinney
p. 211: 10 "Maternal Life Writing in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Narratives: From Blog to Book", Marina Bettaglio
p. 233: Part III Contemporary Issues
p. 235: 11 “'In This Country, the Past Never Dies': Superheroes, Democracy, and the Culture of the Spanish Transition in ¡García!", Alberto López Martín
p. 257: 12 "The Right to Barcelona: Spectrality, Unbuiltness, and El fantasma de Gaudí", Maria DiFrancesco
p. 285: 13 "The Post-15M Condition: Liminality and Multitude in Spanish Graphic Narratives", Xavier Dapena
p. C1: "Correction to: Memory, Amnesia, and Forgetting: Graphic Representations of a Chronic Disease in Twentiethand Twenty-First-Century Spain", Fernando Simón Abad
p. 303: Index
Promoción editorial:
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 Spain’s 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 one with 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.
Spanish Graphic Narratives examina los desarrollos temáticos y críticos mas recientes en el arte secuencial español, con la mayoría de los capítulos enfocándose en cómics publicados en España desde 2007. Tomando en cuenta la riqueza de la historia literaria de España, junto con su Guerra Civil (1936–39), el opresivo régimen de Francisco Franco (1939–75), y la política progresiva contemporánea, la producción de novelas gráficas en España y su temática varían de sobremanera. Temas de interés particular incluyen estudios sobre la memoria histórica y personal; representaciones del género, la raza y la identidad; y textos que tratan las costumbres, tradiciones y situaciones políticas actuales de España. Estos temas generales tienen muchos puntos en común, y esta interrelación (junto con sus puntos de divergencia) ilustra la diversidad y paradojas de la producción literaria y cultural de España en nuestro día, y así ilumina nuestro entendimiento de la consciencia nacional española actual.