Iberian post-literary mediation

Notes on the graphic novel

Abstract

After the time in which literature was a complicit institution, and even a pillar of society, its loss of prestige in the educational system, and social relegation in the media, to a secondary place, is not an obstacle to recognizing its substitutes rather than the literary essence itself in the old way. More than ever, the mediators of fiction (media, Internet) modulate at will the course of the literature of a time with clear symptoms of collapse in the old way. The digital age, with the development of new technologies — a vast array of apps and websites— has generated an excessive presence of all kinds of fictions adapted to the new times and their technologies. A kind of discursive promiscuity, en-couraged by the expansion of the media through which it is propagated, dominates the culture of our time. Thus, taking examples from the Iberian literatures that call us to-gether, we reflect on this drastic change of scenery that theorists call post-literature in the comics sector, to try to understand the new reality in which we are immersed and in which these graphic-iconic mediators outline them.