Maternidades feroces en "Naftalina" y "El cuerpo de Cristo": rescatar violencias del pasado para explicar el presente

This article explores the intergenerational conversations raised by Sole Otero and Bea Lema in their graphic novels Naftalina (Salamandra Graphic, 2020) and El Cuerpo de Cristo (Astiberri, 2023), as journeys into the past to bring to light the gender violence suffered by two women, Vilma and Adela, which are rescued by their respective granddaughter and daughter. Otero and Lema also share the narrative framework of the supernatural as a complementary dimension that builds the stories and agree in providing necessary reflections on issues as important as motherhood, migration, mental health or ethics of care, from a gender perspective. Through feminist theory, the keys to both comics are analyzed to highlight the anthropological spirit and political commitment of two contemporary female authors who detonate the memories of two specific women. These are, in fact, women’s memories from last century.