Spanish graphic narratives : recent developments in sequential art 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 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.