The representation of human passions as an epidemic in history the comic of Hortensia and Death
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https://doi.org/10.9789/2525-3050.2021.v6i11.151-174Keywords:
Neo-baroque, Metalepsis, Cartoon, Metadiegesis, ApocalypseAbstract
In this work, we propose to analyze the Mexican comic strip, “The story of Hortensia and death”, by Verónica Jiménez (2019). We propose that it is a comic created from neo-baroque aesthetics, which uses the framed story and metalepsis to represent two scenarios: a magical-metaphorical and a post-apocalyptic science fiction scenario. One is the metaphor of the other, but in both, it represents a land destroyed by human passions (7 Catholic deadly sins), which are assimilated to a virus. This work is based on the inductive paradigm of indexical inferences of Carlo Ginzburg, from which a description of the source begins, to later analyze the primary source from its socio-cultural and theoretical references. We conclude that this proposal is made from a neo-baroque aesthetic, in which the different components are inserted according to different modes of repetition, the result of the productive consumption of the author.
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