Chapter 6 ‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’ Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Spanish Comics Historical and Cultural Perspectives 1
5. Chapter 1 Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children’s Comics under Franco 19
6. Chapter 2 Satirical Panels against Censorship: A Battle That Raged during the Spanish Transition 37
7. Chapter 3 Tintin in the Movida madrileña: Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine Scene 58
8. Chapter 4 From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth: Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography 80
9. Chapter 5 The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics: Remembering the Civil War and Francoism in Panels 101
10. Chapter 6 ‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’ Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels 125
11. Chapter 7 An Interview with Paco Roca 143
12. Chapter 8 ‘They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’ Intergenerational Memory and La casa 163
13. Chapter 9 Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel La casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy 182
14. Chapter 10 Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Novels 202
15. Chapter 11 Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age: Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló 221
16. Chapter 12 Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975 243
17. Index 265