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About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World

About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World

Eduard Baile-López
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781668447352|ISBN10: 1668447355|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668447369|EISBN13: 9781668447376
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch006
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Baile-López, Eduard. "About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World." Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy, edited by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, et al., IGI Global, 2023, pp. 86-103. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch006

APA

Baile-López, E. (2023). About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World. In A. Cortijo Ocaña, V. Martines, & V. Orazi (Eds.), Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy (pp. 86-103). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch006

Chicago

Baile-López, Eduard. "About Some Spanish Graphic Novels in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Cathartic Panels for the End of the World." In Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy, edited by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines, and Veronica Orazi, 86-103. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4735-2.ch006

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to attend to comics produced during COVID-19 pandemic, especially those referring to the hardest moments of confinement and which may allow to observe the use of comics as a tool to analyze reality, both from a psychological point of view and from a sociopolitical one. Being such a recent phenomenon, corpus selection is introduced as temporary since new items continue to emerge, and furthermore, it is still early to assess its significance. As a pragmatic criterion, two vectors will be used: on the one hand, focus will be stressed on works belonging to the Spanish comics market in order to portray a particular cultural environment; on the other hand, four items will be selected to establish a coherent story which may adapt the stages of the hero's journey into a new paradigm (1. Fear, 2. Anger, 3. Humor, and 4. Healing).

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