Consequential Art: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain Contributor(s): Amago, Samuel (Editor), Marr, Matthew J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1487505035 ISBN-13: 9781487505035 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Art | American - Hispanic American |
Dewey: 741.594 |
LCCN: 2019297558 |
Series: Toronto Iberic |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (3.35 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs have been published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the media, publishing houses, bookstores, museums, and archives) have increasingly promoted the pleasures, pertinence, and power of graphic narrative to an ever-expanding readership - all in an area of cultural production that was held, until recently, to be the stuff of child's play, the unenlightened, or the unsophisticated. This volume takes up the charge of examining how contemporary comics in Spain have confronted questions of cultural legitimacy through serious and timely engagement with diverse themes, forms, and approaches - a collective undertaking that, while keenly in step with transnational theoretical trends, foregrounds local, regional, and national dimensions particular to the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Spanish milieu. From memory and history to the economic and the political, and from the body and personal space to mental geography, the essays collected in Consequential Art account for several key ways in which a range of comics practitioners have deployed the image-text connection and alternative methods of seeing to interrogate some of the most significant cultural issues in Spain. |
Contributor Bio(s): Amago, Samuel: - Samuel Amago is professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. |