Anne Magnussen – författare

Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked by scholars outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics, particularly as it relates to transnational and memory studies.

Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.

This book represents a new take on the study of cultural heritage. Based on narrative and place theories, and drawing on scholarship within memory and ethnoracial studies, it contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate on uses of history. Applying this framework, the book focuses on the small town of Gonzales, known in Texas history as the place of the First Shot of the Texas Revolution. Gonzales is the source of the defiant expression, ‘Come and Take It’ that originates from a confrontation over a small cannon between American immigrants and the Mexican army in 1835. This book focuses on the period of 1900–1940, where the ‘Come and Take It’ narrative emerged and came to define Gonzales as a place, identifying the White population as the dominant community and as the only ‘true’ Texans despite being a town that also included two large African-Texan and Mexican-Texan communities. The period is decisive for how Texas cultural heritage has developed over the 20th and 21st centuries, both in Gonzales and in Texas at large, and with important repercussions for American heritage and society on a greater scale.