Multimodale literacy. Reading and graphic novels/comics
Multimodale literacy. Reading and graphic novels/comics

Summary/Abstract: Our intention is to provoke the comparative reading of some classic novels/ continuous texts vs. graphic novels/ comics/ discontinuous text in order to discover the reason (acknowledged and/or hidden) Romanian teenagers tend to read moreover graphic novels/ comics rather than classic novels and/ or vice-versa. A special attention will provide two volumes of graphic novels/ comics published by ART Publishing House: Maus: Un survivant raconte by Art Spiegelman, Romanian title: Maus. Povestea unui supravietuitor (the Holocaust experience of Spiegelman’s father), and Persepolis, I, II, by Marjane Satrapi, a memoir about growing up in revolutionary Iran. Our queries, which have become working hypotheses, will try to find out if: this motivation is rooted in a trend and in the attraction for graphic novels/comics/ “easy” genres coming from the Anglo-Saxon world, which have recently been promoted even in the new syllabus for Romanian language and literature for primary school and middle school? Is it also a case of a better promotion both online and face to face? Moreover, could it be that these novels work with exciting, living themes for adolescents and young adults, with models of characters animated by feelings and emotions that overwhelm them too, and in which they find themselves more than in the characters of Romanian short story?

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