The pantera bionda and the historiographical making: the use of the source-object comic books for critical theoretical-methodological synthesis

Abstract

The paper makes use of the comic book character named Pantera Bionda to exemplify the historiographical making embraced theoretically and methodologically. It proposes a critical debate about the uses of comics as objects of the past and historical sources and the important inferences of theories and methodologies in its practice. It goes through the paths experienced by historiography itself, with emphasis on the transformations promoted by the Annales School, so that this type of narrative entertainment migrated from a futile consumer product to an analytical possibility of representations, imaginaries and discourses produced and consumed by the past. The work makes use of a didactic procedure on the application of theories and methodologies for the contemplation of a cohesive and critical production that we can assure as a historiographical narrative. It responds to the discursive inaccuracies produced about the dialectical condition object-source as a legitimizer of a narrative lacking the dialectical condition theory-methodology. It does so as a critical contribution to the historiography of comics.