História e representação na obra “El Eternauta” de Héctor Gérman Oesterheld

Abstract

Héctor Gérman Oesterheld was a great science fiction comic book writer in Argentina. His most famous work El Eternauta articulated historical aspects from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, using fictional language to construct everyday representations ranging from economic crises, military coups to authoritarian regimes. These scenarios of instability were approached through allegories and metaphors within the comic books, highlighting the author's criticisms of social inequality, imperialism and military regimes at the end of the 1970s. Given this, this work seeks to understand how the The author's historical context was represented through the El Eternauta comics and how the ideological discourse assumed by Oesterheld gained space in the narratives. By analyzing the concept of historical representation, it was possible to understand the ways in which reality can be (re)presented in comics. Resources that were used by the author to establish the identification link between readers and the narratives.