Mother and grandmother from the perspective of daughters and granddaughters: Silences that are broken in the cartoons of María Alcobre, Femimutancia y Sole Otero

Abstract

This article presents an exploration of the mother-daughter and grandmother-granddaughter bond in three comics published in different editorial spaces and with different publication formats, which circulate the filial bond and different silenced episodes of sexist violence. It is about the episode “Cuarentena” from the series La Nena by María Alcobre published in Fierro magazine (September, 2016), the fanzine “Les niñes” by Femimutancia (October, 2017) and a chapter from the graphic novel Naftalina by Sole Otero (Salamandra Graphic, 2020). The three comics were recently recovered in Coordenadas Gráficas. Cuarenta historietas de autoras de España, Argentina, Chile y Costa Rica (Cooperación Española, 2020) and read in series, unite points that connect recent comic strip production with the transformations promoted by the movements for women's rights and feminist and feminist mobilizations. sexual dissidence in Argentina in the last decade. The publication of the authors and their family autobiographical review are contextualized in the heat of the emergence of groups of authors that make visible demands within the field of graphic creation and the social space of demands for the right to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE for the acronym in Spanish) or legal abortion and the complaint for violence synthesized in the expression "Ya no nos callamos más” [We are no longer silent].