Ecos de la dictadura: Pinochet en las novelas gráficas de ciencia ficción chilenas

Abstract

This paper analyzes three Chilean graphic novels that use science fiction rhetoric and aesthetics to constitute fables that are developed with a look at the Chilean dictatorship and on the figure of Augusto Pinochet. The review of these novels allows to identify the way in which the character of the dictator is configured both from the textual narrative and from a visual perspective through the use of illustrations, combining a multimodal discourse that feeds from memory, history and science fiction, giving life to a character Pinochet.