Biographical comics as scholarship?: The case of Salvador Dalí and the ‘Dalí Renaissance’

• Jennifer Nagtegaal ^[1]
  1. [1] University of British Columbia

     University of British Columbia

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 98, Nº 8, 2021, págs. 1313-1339
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2021.1956172
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• Resumen

  • In the context of a ‘biographical turn’ in scholarship, theorizations of comics as scholarship and a recent publishing boom of biographical comics in Europe, this paper argues for the ‘biocomic’—beyond being a pervasive object of study—as a knowledge-making modality capable of critically contributing to myriad fields of scholarship. This is achieved through a case study of the biographical construction of Salvador Dalí focusing on two comics from France and Spain: Dalí por Baudoin (Edmond Baudoin, 2012) and El juego lúgubre (Paco Roca, 2012). I position these comics within the so-called ‘Dalí renaissance’ taking place within Spanish Cultural Studies.