El tiempo fantástico en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX y su transmutación al soporte gráfico del cómic

Abstract

This article proposes material support as a narrative structure based on the concept of literary chronotope –relationship between space-time with aesthetic intention in literature– by Mikhail Bakhtin, and the contrast with Latin American literature of the 20th century. Although the time in the graphic narrative is found in the visual representation of the space, analyzed by Linden, Barbieri, McCloud, among others, my premise is the way of time in such narrative really inhabits the blank spaces between frames or panels, and proposes the analysis of the support in the comic and the possibility of experimenting with it to deepen into the narrative discourse –while suggesting a classification based on its alteration–. The proposal is the transmutation of such white spaces into cuts, folds, unfolding and other resources that turned into an alternative format/support to get a different temporal perception in the reader, and likewise, give him the feeling of being co-creator of the story; in turn, such alteration of the conventional narrative support will translate into fantastic time. This conception of graphic supports can also influence new editorial schemes and a different kind of reader.