Nuevos itinerarios de lectura: la novela gráfica y el cruce de géneros

Abstract

This work is part of research projects in the field of the UNRC interested in the study of literary discourse, its approaches, and its pedagogical and methodological implications. From the perspective of foreign languages, these projects define their objectives based on the relationship between the young reader and literature. For this reason, it is necessary, first, to characterize the literary texts that circulate today, to inquire about rewritings, re-readings and responses especially to canonical texts. The dialogic relationship between the texts enshrined in the literary tradition and contemporary reinterpretations allow us to construct a theoretical discourse in a context of profound social and cultural changes that condition understanding, tastes, aesthetic sensibility, our appreciations of culture and culture. our ways of reading. Concepts such as intertextuality, parody, intermediality and transmediality appear recontextualized through the appearance of diverse types of literary discourses. Within the emerging literatures that result from an implicit or explicit border crossing (linguistic, gender, media and supports), this presentation will analyze the graphic novel Heart of Darkness by the illustrator Catherine Anyango, and the writer-adapter David Mairowitz. In it, the construction of a sequential discourse is evidenced together with an interesting game between the image and the word. The resignification of Conrad's novel is based on the use of a variety of visual and artistic resources that provoke the construction of multiple meanings.