“Ser y valer”: three portraits of the female diaspora captured in the graphic novel by women artists

Abstract

In this study three graphic novels have been analyzed: The Lost of Jessica Abel, Pérsepolis of Marjane Satrapi and Fatherland of Nina Bunjevac, published during the period between the years 2002-2015, with the aim of pointing out as from the feminine identity this complex multidisciplinary plastic manifestation describes complex and unfortunate events in the history of the present time, such as: uprooting, exile, racism and defenselessness.

From content analysis we will demonstrate the importance of graphic novels referred to as a historical document. Narrated from the personal experience of the aforementioned authors-designers and the voluntary and involuntary migrants of different nationalities as the North American, Iranian, and Eastern European, contextualizing it in the place from which they depart towards which they are heading to settle. Previously we elaborated an introduction that bifurcates in two visions of interest: a conceptual one about the origin of the migration and its anthropological connotation and another one that refers and considers the graphic novel a considerable resource, -though still unpublished for the historiography-, for create awareness about controversial sociological-historical issues as those exposed.

Speech that we will continue to develop in the future from the following titles: Sansamba by Susanna Marín, Sofia and Judith Vanistendeal's Black, Rolling Blackouts. Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq by Sarah Gliden and Bienvenue à Calais, Les raisons de la colère by Marie-Françoise Colombani