Enseñanza de la literatura hispanoamericana a través de biografías literarias gráficas / Teaching Spanish-American literature through graphic literary biographies

• Published in: Tejuelo (Trujillo) Vol. 40; pp. 45 - 76
• Main Authors: Rovira-Collado, José, Miras, Sebastián, Ruiz-Bañuls, Mónica, Baile-López, Eduard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Consejería de Educación 27-09-2024
• Subjects: comics; biography; intertextuality; hispanic american literature; visual literacy
• ISSN: 1988-8430; 1988-8430
• DOI: 10.17398/1988-8430.40.45

Graphic literary biographies are a new tool for teaching literature. These comic strips collect the life and literary production of their protagonists, and constitute very elaborated proposals and with a rich intertextuality. This research analyzes six graphic biographies published in recent years on different figures of 20th century Hispanic American literature: Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda and Alejandra Pizarnik. A content analysis is carried out to highlight the intertextuality, the paratexts of each work and their didactic possibilities for literary education at different educational levels, also pointing out the relationship between image and text and the degree of fictionality of both. A brief didactic proposal is shown with different activities to exemplify the possibilities of these readings. We conclude by emphasizing that these biographies offer us multiple resources to approach the literary production of their protagonists and confirm the enormous potential of comics as an educational tool.
Las biografías literarias gráficas suponen una nueva herramienta para la enseñanza de la literatura. Estos cómics recogen la vida y la producción literaria de sus protagonistas, siendo propuestas muy elaboradas y con una rica intertextualidad. En esta investigación se analizan seis biografías gráficas publicadas en los últimos años sobre distintas figuras de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XX: Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda y Alejandra Pizarnik. Se realiza un análisis de contenido para destacar la intertextualidad, los paratextos de cada obra y sus posibilidades didácticas para la educación literaria en distintos niveles educativos, señalando además la relación entre imagen y texto y el grado de ficcionalidad de ambos. Se muestra una breve propuesta didáctica con distintas actividades para ejemplificar las posibilidades de estas lecturas. Se concluye destacando que estas biografías nos ofrecen múltiples recursos para acercarnos a la producción literaria de sus protagonistas y confirman el enorme potencial del cómic como herramienta educativa.   Abstract Graphic literary biographies are a new tool for teaching literature. These comic strips collect the life and literary production of their protagonists and constitute very elaborated proposals and with a rich intertextuality. This research analyzes six graphic biographies published in recent years on different figures of 20th century Hispanic American literature: Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda and Alejandra Pizarnik. A content analysis is carried out to highlight the intertextuality, the paratexts of each work and their didactic possibilities for literary education at different educational levels, also pointing out the relationship between image and text and the degree of fictionality of both. A brief didactic proposal is shown with different activities to exemplify the possibilities of these readings. We conclude by emphasizing that these biographies offer us multiple resources to approach the literary production of their protagonists and confirm the enormous potential of comics as an educational tool. Keywords: comics; biography; intertextuality; hispanic american literature; visual literacy.