The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity

dc.contributor.author	Harris, Sarah D.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-01-11T14:26:51Z
dc.date.available	2017-01-11T14:26:51Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Stereotyping based on ethnic and racial difference has also led to a practice whereby artists represent, and viewers understand, the “Other” as monstrous in comics and cartoons. Building on the idea that comics rely on physical exaggeration, on Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s seven theses on monstrosity, and on Spain’s multicultural and multiethnic history, this chapter explores the depiction of monstrosity and alterity from two divergent moments in Spain. More specifically, it argues that two chosen examples represent the extremes of a range of practice in using stereotypes to depict monsters, from near absolute appropriation of monstrous characteristics, on the one hand, to unadulterated “othering” of the monstrous enemy on the other.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels ISBN 9781138025158. Eds. Ian Hague and Carolene Ayaka, Routledge (2015).	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11209/10697
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge	en_US
dc.title	The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US

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