Abstract
ABSTRACT Based between Angoulême and Bariloche, Sole Otero is a published and increasingly translated comics author. Her award-winning graphic novel Naftalina (2020) intertwines the memories of four generations of women in a family which fled from fascist Italy to Argentina in the 1920s, with the coming-of-age of the author’s alter-ego, Rocío, in the South of Buenos Aires shaken by the 2001 crisis. The language created for Naftalina is a compelling example of the multilingualism of Italian memory within the transnational Italian comics scene. In this interview, Sole Otero speaks about exploring a constellation of family relations and blurring ideas of linear and realistic accounts of history, which allows the distinctive language and aesthetic of this comic book to emerge. The interview foregrounds Naftalina as a graphic novel that illuminates current developments of comics autobiography and storytelling, and more broadly the relationship between comics and memory cultures.
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