Spanish Graphic Narratives and Women Writers: Intersections of Memory, Politics, and Gender in Ilu Ros’s Cosas nuestras Richter, David F. Spanish Graphic Narratives Comics Studies Women writers Narrativa gráfica española Estudios de cómic Escritoras This project was supported by a 2023–2024 research fellowship from the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies & Research at Utah State University and a 2023 Creative Activity and Research Enhancement (C.A.R.E.) award from the College of Humanities & Social Sciences at Utah State University. In recent years, Spanish women writers and illustrators have produced noteworthy graphic narratives, some of which have been winners of the most prestigious cultural awards in Spain. Those volumes have focused on issues related to Spanish historical memory, narrative self-consciousness, feminism, sexual dissidence, and the politics of the female body. The present study examines the thematic and aesthetics impulses of Ilu Ros’s 2020 illustrated volume Cosas nuestras, a text that offers readers a reflection on 20th- and 21st-century Spanish history and (popular) culture through the memories and stories of the author’s grandmother. Through a non-traditional usage of illustrations and artistic sequences that question the generic boundaries of the comics medium, a self-conscious version of the author-illustrator gives a penetrating look at intergenerational cultures of resistance, the construction of identity, and the discussion of gender roles during the dictatorship and beyond. 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. 2025-06-16T07:50:27Z 2025-06-16T07:50:27Z 2025-05-30 journal article Richter, D. F. (2025). Spanish Graphic Narratives and Women Writers: Intersections of Memory, Politics, and Gender in Ilu Ros’s Cosas nuestras. Impossibilia. Revista Internacional De Estudios Literarios, (29). https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.292024.32279 2174-2464 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/104695 10.30827/impossibilia.292024.32279 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Granada