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

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.