Sex and the City urban eroticism in Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester's Manuel series
This essay focuses on the treatment of urban space in the comic Manuel by Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester, first published in serialized form in the Spanish monthly arts magazine La Luna de Madrid in 1983–1984 and re-published in book format in 2005. My analysis suggests that within Manuel the urban, the cr...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Hispanic research journal / Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This essay focuses on the treatment of urban space in the comic Manuel by Rodrigo Muñoz Ballester, first published in serialized form in the Spanish monthly arts magazine La Luna de Madrid in 1983–1984 and re-published in book format in 2005. My analysis suggests that within Manuel the urban, the creative, and the erotic-experiential become entangled and confused: the city of Madrid is not just a setting for the comic, but a site that allows for the transferences between lived experience (the love story between an unnamed protagonist and the eponymous Manuel) and creative activity (the protagonist’s creation of a statue of Manuel) that structure and articulate the comic. Additionally, the comic’s focus on urban heterotopic spaces such as parks, clubs, and Madrid’s metro, as well as its destabilization of well-known landmarks (Gran Vía, Plaza Dos de Mayo, the Metrópolis building), suggest a view of the city constantly in the process of making and unmaking itself, rather than as a stable, graspable physical entity. Finally, this notion of urban space as dynamic flux can be seen to infiltrate the comic, as its narrative and structural coherence become undermined by frequent discontinuities and the collapse of different spatial and temporal planes within one single frame — features that invite a reading of the comic itself as a heterotopic site. |
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| Beschreibung: | Zusammenfassung in spanischer Sprache |
| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISSN: | 1468-2737 |