2025/11/23 by Castelli Olvera, Sarahi Isuki
Arts and Humanities · #Comic #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism #Latin American Literature Analysis #Massmedia #Memory #Mictlan #Tradition
paper · doi:10.23692/imex.28.3
openalex publication_date 2025/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/11/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
pp. 39-57 In this article, we argue that the comic El Trayecto, published by Veritos in the webtoon Leyendas y memorias (2021), articulates individual and collective memory; aspects that are the face of the same process: the survival of memory and cultural tradition through the materialization of imaginaries in the postmodern object. We base this work on an interpretive analysis based on the paradigm of indexical inferences proposed by Carlo Ginzburg for microhistory. This analysis is structured in 4 levels: formal, thematic, iconological and theoretical. At the theoretical level, we take up the proposals on memory by Maurice Halbwachs (2004) and Javiera Bustamante (2014); the notion of cultural processes by Alfred Kroeber (1948) and we complement it with the notions of pre-Hispanic worldview contributed by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (2013).