Une vision sexuée de l’Histoire contemporaine espagnole à travers deux œuvres d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, El arte de volar et El ala rota by Vanessa Auroy

“…Las existencias de Petra y Antonio ponen de realce los actos, las palabras y los silencios de millones de españolas y españoles que vivieron y sufrieron la contienda y sus consecuencias.This paper will study how, through the biographical comic books dedicated to his mother and his father, Antonio Altarriba gives us a gender-specific view of life during the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. …”
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Rudy Kelly’s Eyes: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Øyvind Vågnes

“…At first sight Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt belongs solidly in the same tradition as books such as James Agee and Walker Evans’s classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which grew out of an assignment in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions sharecropper families in the South lived under during the “Dust Bowl,” as well as William T. …”
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