Historieta autobiográfica: características principales del género

Abstract

This article collects the most important aspects of the research Tools to evaluate the suitability of the language and the narrative of the autobiographical comic strip. The first step was to select the ideas considered most significant from a series of experts in the genre in order to propose a theoretical framework that characterizes the phenomenon. The main author was Cardiff University Professor Elisabeth El Refaie, author of Autobiographical comics. Life writing in images. Subsequently, these guidelines have been used to develop an evaluation instrument that serves as a guide for novel creators of autobiographical comics to determine the suitability of their work. The instrument was validated by applying it to the analysis of two commercially successful works with strongly different characteristics: Persepolis (Satrapi, 2000) and J’aurais adoré être ethnologue (Motin, 2009). Finally, it was concluded that the tool comprises the most distinctive points that outline the autobiographical comic strip as a genre: countercultural sensitivity, centrality of the body, authenticity performance and reader involvement.

The tool considers the following dimensions: countercultural sensitivity, centrality of the body, authenticity performance and reader involvement.