Overview
- Examines the most recent thematic and aesthetic developments in Spanish graphic narratives, with most chapters focusing primarily on works published in the last ten years
- Brings together scholars from the USA, Canada, and Spain and seeks to address the graphic works that are increasingly being studied in academic settings in an international context
- Presents innovative close readings of the textual and visual elements of the graphic narrative genre
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Memories, Historical and Personal
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Transforming Identities: Race, Gender, Immigration
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Contemporary Issues
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Collin McKinney is Associate Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University, USA.
David F. Richter is Associate Professor of Spanish at Utah State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spanish Graphic Narratives
Book Subtitle: Recent Developments in Sequential Art
Editors: Collin McKinney, David F. Richter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56820-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56819-1Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56822-1Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56820-7Published: 30 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comics Studies, European Literature, European Culture