{"product_id":"consequential-art-comics-culture-in-contemporary-spain-hardcover","title":"Consequential Art: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Amago\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMatthew J. Marr\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanish 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 \u003ci\u003eConsequential Art \u003c\/i\u003eaccount 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Amago\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatthew J. Marr\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773709484320,"sku":"9781487505035","price":136.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/100d151de71156dd89e858743ef2c20b_3420bf95-7f93-42e2-a8c9-8125039c12d7.webp?v=1780430982","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/consequential-art-comics-culture-in-contemporary-spain-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}