La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme

Many comic book authors have chosen to tell the story of individual destinies by interweaving them into a collective history, that of Spain under Franco's regime. This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works...

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Main Author: Viviane Alary
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2020-11-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/9342
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description Many comic book authors have chosen to tell the story of individual destinies by interweaving them into a collective history, that of Spain under Franco's regime. This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works placed in the context of their first publication (the Paracuellos series, 1977; El artefacto perverso, 1996; Cuerda de presas, 2005; Los surcos del azar, 2013). It analyzes the narrative and graphic choices as well as the formats and genres in which this memory of Franco's regime, based on testimony, investigation and consideration of historiographical advances, is embodied. The modalities specific to each author facilitate the reader's access to certain historical knowledge transformed into autofiction, detective fiction, fictionalized testimony, graphic journalism.
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
violence
repression
Comic book
memory of Franco’s dictatorship
title La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
title_full La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
title_fullStr La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
title_full_unstemmed La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
title_short La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
title_sort la bande dessinee contemporaine au rendez vous de la memoire violente de l apres guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme
topic violence
repression
Comic book
memory of Franco’s dictatorship
url https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/9342
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