Abstract

ARTIME, Carmela; GATELL, Montse  and  IRIBARREN, Teresa. Violencia, corporalidad y simbolismo en la novela gráfica memorialista protagonizada por mujeres. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2023, n.123, pp.65-86.  Epub June 06, 2023. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi123.4405.

This work proposes a reading, framed in the intersection of memory and gender studies, of two Spanish graphic novels: Cuerda de presas (2005), by Fidel Martínez and Jorge García, and El ala rota (2016), by Antonio Altarriba and Kim. In order to subvert the hegemonic androcentric historical memory narratives, both novels compose the political and social space of women during the Civil War and Francoism and take charge of their symbolic representation. Through the analysis of differences and contacts between the narrative elements of written literature and those of the graphic medium, it will become evident that the determining impact of patriarchal power and gender violence on women’s life trajectories is represented through female corporality; a representation that seeks an ethical response from the reader. The hermeneutic discourse pursues a didactic purpose. Following critical pedagogy, it will be argued that the works illustrate the extent to which power relations intervene in the construction of knowledge and that graphic literature can be an instrument of opposition and subversion of these unequal relationships, propitiating, in this case, the rehabilitation of an agentive female imagery.

Keywords : Graphic novel; Memory; Civil War; Francoism; Sexist violence..

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