TY - JOUR

T1 - Intermediality and Transmedial Tanatography in Jacobo Fernández Serrano’s Lois Pereiro. Breve encontro

AU - Miranda-Barreiro, David

PY - 2023/9/1

Y1 - 2023/9/1

N2 - In 2011, the poet Lois Pereiro (1958-1996) was honoured at the annual Día das Letras Galegas [Galician Literature Day] that celebrates a Galician literary author. As it has become customary, the Galician publishing industry released a plethora of texts about Pereiro, particularly biographies. Said corpus includes Jacobo Fernández Serrano’s comics biography Lois Pereiro. Breve Encontro: un achegamento comiqueiro á biografía e obra do poeta [Lois Pereiro. Brief Encounter, a Comics Approach to the Poet’s Life and Work]. This article examines the comic as an intermedial text that captures the influence of literature, films, music, and comics in Pereiro’s own writing. Furthermore, it is analysed as part of a transmedial network, together with other biographies published around the Día das Letras. These texts address the role played by death in the poet’s life and work (as he died at an early age of rapeseed oil poisoning and AIDS), and they can therefore be understood as ‘thanatographies’ as much as life writing.

AB - In 2011, the poet Lois Pereiro (1958-1996) was honoured at the annual Día das Letras Galegas [Galician Literature Day] that celebrates a Galician literary author. As it has become customary, the Galician publishing industry released a plethora of texts about Pereiro, particularly biographies. Said corpus includes Jacobo Fernández Serrano’s comics biography Lois Pereiro. Breve Encontro: un achegamento comiqueiro á biografía e obra do poeta [Lois Pereiro. Brief Encounter, a Comics Approach to the Poet’s Life and Work]. This article examines the comic as an intermedial text that captures the influence of literature, films, music, and comics in Pereiro’s own writing. Furthermore, it is analysed as part of a transmedial network, together with other biographies published around the Día das Letras. These texts address the role played by death in the poet’s life and work (as he died at an early age of rapeseed oil poisoning and AIDS), and they can therefore be understood as ‘thanatographies’ as much as life writing.

KW - comics biography

KW - banda deseñada

KW - Lois Pereiro

KW - intermediality

KW - transmediality

KW - thanatography

U2 - 10.3167/eca.2023.160203

DO - 10.3167/eca.2023.160203

M3 - Article

VL - 16

SP - 54

EP - 73

JO - European Comic Art

JF - European Comic Art

SN - 1754-3797

IS - 2

ER -