This volume was born and developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global lockdown. In a spirit of community and collective action, it offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative.
This volume was born and developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global lockdown. In a spirit of community and collective action, it offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.
The chapters reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the comic within the overarching methodology focusing on political and social intervention. They employ a cultural studies approach with different theoretical frameworks ranging from debates within comics studies, film and media theory, postcolonialism, gender studies, economics, multimodality, aging aesthetics, memory studies, food studies, and sound studies, among others.
This truly interdisciplinary volume will interest scholars and students of comics studies, Iberian and Latin American Studies, sociology, politics, and history.
INTRODUCTION
Xavier Dapena and Joanne Britland
CHAPTER 1: La burbuja del alquiler en el cómic: Mass Tourism, Gentrification,
and Spains Housing Crisis in Todo bajo el sol (2021), Soy de Pueblo: Manual
Para Sobrevivir en la Ciudad (2011), and Coqueto, mejor ver (2019)
Joanne Britland
CHAPTER 2: Drawing Upon Silence: Decolonial Political Protest in the Comics
of Ramón Esono Ebalé
Caroline B. Colquhoun
CHAPTER 3: Dystopia and Multimodality in Spanish Comics. Hoy es un buen día
para morir (2016) by Jesús Colomina Orgaz (Colo)
Jorge Catalá
CHAPTER 4: M21 Magazine and the Construction of a Critical Memory of Madrid
Pedro Pérez del Solar
CHAPTER 5: Memories of the Material Body: Virtual Visibility and the Rise of
Cyber Zines in Contemporary Spain
Lauren Benjamin Mushro
CHAPTER 6: Estamos todas bien as craftivism: Your war or our Struggles?
Esther Claudio
CHAPTER 7: From Barcelonas Underground to Madrids Movida: Queer
Interventions through Comics in the Spanish Transition
Carla Suárez Vega
CHAPTER 8: Hungry for Identity: Graphic Narratives and Food in Spain
Rosi Song
CHAPTER 9: Listening to the Sounds: Acoustic Trauma, Silences, Subaltern
Words and Songs as a Source of Memory and Political Imagination in the
Spanish Graphic Novel of the 21st Century
Isabelle Touton
CHAPTER 10: The Art of Aging in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Narratives
Rhiannon McGlade
CHAPTER 11: The Four Walls of Oblivion: Mediating Female History in Kim and
Antonio Altarribas El ala rota (2016)
Jesús Játiva Fernández
CHAPTER 12: Bringing Migration into Perspective(s): Javier de Isusis Aslum
as a Call to Solidarity through Multidirectional Memory
Jasmin Wrobel
Xavier Dapena joined Iowa States faculty as an Assistant Professor in Spanish and World Film Studies in 2021, after receiving his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on his first book project Nobody expects the Spanish Revolution: the Radical Imagination in Graphic Narrative in Contemporary Spain, he received the Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania for the project Gendering Spanish Comics: a Digital Archive of Womens Graphic Narratives, and the international grant, the Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award, from The Ohio State University. His publications on Spanish graphic narrative have appeared in scholarly journals, such as Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and edited volumes, such as Consequential Art: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain (2019) and Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art (2020).
Joanne Britland is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Framingham State University (Framingham, MA) after receiving her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Virginia. She specializes in 20th- and 21st- century Iberian literary, cultural, and visual studies. Joannes publications on comics, novels, theater, television, and film appear in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispanic Studies Review, and Chasqui, with two forthcoming chapters in books published by Renacimiento and SUNY Press. Her current book project analyzes cultural responses to social, political, and economic crises in Spain from the financial crash of 2008 to the COVID-19 pandemic.