Spanish comics
Subtitle: historical and cultural perspectives
By: edited by Anne Magnussen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781789209983
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Comic books, strips; History and criticism
Description: "Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked by scholars outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics, particularly as it relates to transnational and memory studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dissenting voices?; title: Satirical panels against censorship; title: Tintin in the Movida madrileña; title: From pioneer of comics to cultural myth; title: The representation of traumatic memory in Spanish comics; title: 'For he bestirred himself to protect the land from the Moors'; title: An interview with Paco Roca; title: 'They tried to bury us; they didn't know we were seeds'; title: Paco Roca's graphic novel La casa (2015) as architectural elegy; title: Therapeutic journeys in contemporary Spanish graphic novels; title: Social criticism through humour in the digital age; title: Historicising the emergence of comics art scholarship in Spain, 1965-1975.