Impossibilia. Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios

Reseña de / Review of: Santana Hernández, Manuel, y Pascua Canelo, Marta (eds.) (2024). Glosar el exocanon: escrituras inasibles en español. Salamanca: Delirio.

Marina Capasso — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reseña de / Review of: Saneleuterio, Elia, y Valero Gómez, Manuel (eds.) (2024). La rosa incómoda. Lecturas e identidades femeninas en la literatura contemporánea. Granada: Comares.

Gemma Viciedo Checa — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reseña de / Review of: Carrera Garrido, Miguel, y Morales Ortiz, Gracia María (eds.) (2024). Voces para la escena. Dramaturgias actuales en España y América Latina. Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

Alejandro Amores Sánchez — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reseña de / Review of: Loría Araujo, David (2021). Leer el cuerpo gordo: miradas a la narrativa mexicana desde la adipocrítica. México: Universidad Iberoamericana.

Selma Rodal Linares — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reseña de / Review of: Simón Alegre, Ana I. (2023). Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919). Cartas, cuentos cortos y artículos periodísticos. Wilmington: Vernon Press.

Elena Lindholm — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reseña de / Review of: Bustamante Escalona, Fernanda, y Amaro Castro, Lorena (eds.) (2024). Carto(corpo)grafías: nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert.

Yuyun Peng — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction: Women in Sequential Art and Graphic Narrative in the Hispanic Sphere

Adriana Gordillo, Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This introduction elaborates on the purpose of the dossier "Women in Sequential Art and Graphic Narratives in the Hispanic World". It also outlines the contributions of each included article to the proposed topic.

Comics in the Argentinian feminist press: a contribution to the construction of a feminist genealogy (1924-1987)

Daniela Páez — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article aims to reconstruct the process through which the feminist movement has adopted comic resources as tools to critically question patriarchal society and conventional gender stereotypes. This study explores the transformations that took place between 1924 and 1987, in order to recompose the social networks in which the artwork was inserted, to analyse its uses and to look for connections with the traditional spaces of cultural production. Based on this analysis, we look at how publications promoted by women activists have been configured as spaces of visibility for women artists, as well as platforms for the development of comics and graphic humor with a feminist approach.

Women in Comics About the Spanish Civil War. Cuerda de presas, by Jorge García and Fidel Martínez

Carmen Moreno-Nuño — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This essay focuses on the representation of women in comics about the Civil War. It consists of two parts: the first reviews the works that give women a leading role in the war conflict, while the second carries out a detailed textual analysis of the album Cuerda de presas (2005), by Jorge García and Fidel Martínez. Despite being a story that revolves around the experience of women in Franco's prisons, most critical attention received so far has focused on its relationship with the recovery of the historical memory of the Civil War rather than gender aspects, hence the importance of this analysis.

Ferocious Motherhoods in Naftalina and El Cuerpo de Cristo: Rescuing the Violence of the Past to Explain the Present

María Márquez López — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores the intergenerational conversations raised by Sole Otero and Bea Lema in their graphic novels Naftalina (Salamandra Graphic, 2020) and El Cuerpo de Cristo (Astiberri, 2023), as journeys into the past to bring to light the gender violence suffered by two women, Vilma and Adela, which are rescued by their respective granddaughter and daughter. Otero and Lema also share the narrative framework of the supernatural as a complementary dimension that builds the stories and agree in providing necessary reflections on issues as important as motherhood, migration, mental health or ethics of care, from a gender perspective. Through feminist theory, the keys to both comics are analyzed to highlight the anthropological spirit and political commitment of two contemporary female authors who detonate the memories of two specific women. These are, in fact, women’s memories from last century.

Mexico City according to female graphic narrators: cartography of flâneuses, artists and activists in the 21st century

Yanna Hadatty Mora — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article is centered on five graphic narratives published between 2013 and 2024, La Perdida by Jessica Abel (2006-2013), Sindicalismo 89 by Inés Estrada (2013), Voces de Chimalpopoca by Shu Otero (2021), ArtMorras by Iurhi Peña (2021-2023) and El hombre de los muchos pasaportes by Carolina Castañeda (2024). Wether foreigners or Mexicans, their authors explore Mexico City in their graphic narratives, seeking to tell small stories, for which they use different segments of the city as settings. The circumscriptions seem to obey biographical, historical, economic and social reasons. This article aims to give an analytical scope of the five books, and to propose some comparative guidelines, focusing mainly on urban representation.

La narrativa gráfica española de autoras: Intersecciones de memoria, política y género en Cosas nuestras de Ilu Ros

David F. Richter — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

En años recientes, escritoras e ilustradoras españolas han producido narrativas gráficas de mucha importancia, algunas de las cuales han sido premiadas con los galardones más prestigiosos del país. Tales volúmenes se han centrado en temas como la memoria histórica española, la autoconsciencia narrativa, el feminismo, la disidencia sexual y la política del cuerpo femenino. El presente estudio se enfoca en los impulsos tanto temáticos como estéticos de la obra Cosas nuestras de Ilu Ros, la cual ofrece al lector un viaje por la historia y cultura española de los siglos XX y XXI a través de las memorias y narraciones de la abuela de la autora. Mediante el uso poco tradicional de ilustraciones y viñetas de cómic, una versión autoconsciente de la autora-ilustradora ofrece una mirada penetrante a las culturas intergeneracionales de resistencia, la construcción de la identidad y la discusión de roles de género durante la dictadura y después.

From Gothic Archetype to Fallen Woman: La vampira de Barcelona as a Case of Hybridisation between Alternative Comic and Graphic Novel

Marta Miquel Baldellou — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the context of sequential art and visual narrative, there has been a debate whether the graphic novel should be considered different from the comic. Theorists such as Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey (2015) argue that the graphic novel presents features of its own which differentiate it from the comic not only at a thematic level, since the graphic novel is usually associated with biography and journalistic report, but also at a formal level, as it is published in a book format and is of greater length with respect to the comic. The graphic narrative La vampira de Barcelona (2017) is based on the actual criminal case involving Enriqueta Martí Ripoll, considering her character as a legend, gothic archetype, and popular myth, but also as a fallen woman, thus arising as a paradigm of hybridisation between the alternative comic and the graphic novel.

Alterity and Feminine Traits in the Character of Mawa: Jungla Magazine (Zig-Zag Publishing, 1967-1972)

Paola Melina Rapimán Risco — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the constructions of otherness present in the comic strip Mawa, an emblematic character from the Chilean publishing house Zig-Zag, with scripts by Juan Marino. Based on an analysis of the corpus published between 1967 and 1972 in the magazine Jungla, the author critically explores the representation of femininity in a narrative context traditionally dominated by male protagonists. The research reveals how the character of Mawa transgresses gender conventions by inhabiting and dominating the jungle space, traditionally conceived as an exclusive territory for the display of masculine attributes. This study contributes to the understanding of gender dynamics in 20th-century Latin American comics, highlighting the significant rupture that Mawa represents in the Chilean cultural imaginary of the time and her contribution to the reconfiguration of female roles in graphic narrative.

The Knowledge of the literature in the theory by Antonio Chicharro Chamorro

José Rienda Polo — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper offers a diachronic review of Literatura y saber by Professor Antonio Chicharro Chamorro, with the aim of demonstrating that, paradoxically, this text transcends its initial intention of serving as a mere introductory note and establishes itself as a fully consolidated theoretical reference. The conceptual rigor and academic solidity underpinning its dialectic on the possibility of a science of literature, the historicity of scientifically oriented literary studies, and the challenges surrounding the delineation of the field and object of this science make it a pivotal work in the realm of literary theory. In this context, the study highlights the centrality of notions such as aesthetic enjoyment and literary knowledge in the articulation of key categories, including those of the reader, the critical reader, and the consumption of the literary.

Word and image facing the unproductive being’s condemnation: Diamela Eltit and Paz Errázuris’s El infarto del alma

Sandra Fernández Romero — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper proposes a reading of El infarto del alma by Diamela Eltit and Paz Errázuriz, published for the first time in 1994, which draws on Julio Ramos’ considerations in order to define the collaborative project as a Siamese project. Our intention is to demonstrate that behind the hybridity that characterises this kind of photo-essay is justified by a desire to subvert established borders and, specially, to make visible what lies on the other side of them. Thus, in the first place, we attend to the historical and cultural context of the book’s production. In the following section, we analyse Eltit’s text, focusing on her reflections about the body in a broad sense and, particularly, the female body. Finally, we focus on Errázuriz’s photographs in order to verify their function in El infarto del alma’s scheme.

Simulacra and Beauty in Benidorm. Nieva en Benidorm (Isabel Coixet, 2020) and Spanish Beauty (Esther García Llovet, 2022

Álvaro López Fernández, Elios Mendieta — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Benidorm has become a recurrent space in contemporary Spanish literature and film, whether as an icon of mass tourism, of the golden retreat or of real estate speculation. However, this article studies two recent proposals, the novel Spanish Beauty (2022), by Esther García Llovet, and the film Nieva en Benidorm (2020), by Isabel Coixet, which, distancing themselves from these features, prefer to focus on the rare beauty and contradictory nature of the Alicante town, based on a plot of noir entanglement involving its protagonists. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyse, in a comparative way, the narrative and formal strategies employed by the two authors for their original portraits of this city-simulacrum, and to understand, despite their stylistic differences, how the novel and the film are able to dialogue with each other.

Mariano Baquero’s First Contact with Narrative Perspectivism. Critical Influences and Literature Readings

Patricia López Ruiz — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

From the beginning of his research career, Mariano Baquero Goyanes' studies on the novel were characterised by a special interest in the analysis of narrative categories. Of all of them, throughout his studies, he paid special attention to narrative perspectivism. There are numerous researchers who have highlighted the pioneering work in the literary field that their approaches to this notion entailed. Taking into account the relevance that this category presents within his studies, this paper aims to review his first approaches to this concept, with special emphasis on the critical influences and literary readings that contributed to the elaboration of his thought. The time period it covers goes from 1950, when he makes his first mention of the notion of literary perspectivism, to 1961, the year in which he publishes a monograph that is a very synthetic exposition of what for him was a novel.

Desire, Fabulation and Memory: an Approach to Contemporary Trends in Pol Guasch

Jose Manuel Llopis Piquero — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores emerging trends in contemporary Catalan literature through the work of Pol Guasch, focusing on the interrelation between desire, fabulation and memory. It will be suggested that, by blurring the boundaries of literary genres and questioning normative realism, they enable the development of post-human and post-capitalist imaginaries. In addition, drawing on speculative fiction, ecocriticism and queer theory, these texts would allow the configuration of new sensibilities and forms of resistance, using literature as a tool to (re)think otherness, time and subjectivity in a world marked by a constant state of war.

From the Thesis Novel to the Confession: La mujer nueva (1955) by Carmen Laforet in the Light of Literary Genres

Celia Vázquez Martínez — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Carmen Laforet's novels have mostly been studied from a biographical perspective. La mujer nueva (1955) is a clear example, as it was inspired by the author's religious conversion in 1951. While the connection between her life and work is evident, could this novel be explored in other ways to better understand it as a piece of literature? This article offers a critical and theoretical analysis of La mujer nueva through the framework of literary genres. It focuses first on its relationship with the thesis novel but also considers its connections to other forms, such as the confession, the existential novel, and the anti-novel. Furthermore, the analysis of the thesis novel itself is explored in depth, examining its fundamental characteristics. In summary, the main traits of each genre in La mujer nuevaare identified and studied, with a reflection on the very concept of gender and how it shapes the interpretation of a literary work.

Resisting from the Wound: Nuclear Fiction, Trauma, and Corporeality in Marina Perezagua’s Yoro

Marcin Kolakowski — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper analyses Marina Perezagua’s novel Yoro through an interdisciplinary approach that combines nuclear fiction, trauma studies, and critical studies of corporeality. Using these theoretical frameworks, the article explores how the novel articulates the vulnerability of bodies marked by nuclear violence, historical memory, and social exclusion, particularly within the context of trans identities. The protagonist, H, embodies a body marked by physical vulnerability, serving as both a repository of memory and a site of political resistance against social norms. Yoro not only broadens the scope of nuclear fiction by incorporating trans perspectives but also redefines corporeality as an act of agency and transformation. The analysis highlights how the novel intertwines personal and collective dimensions, turning trauma and exclusion into literary tools of resistance.