Graphic Novel and Colombian Armed Conflict: Los once as Minor Literature

Abstract

This article will try to answer whether the graphic novel Los once, by Jiménez et al. (2014), gathers the essential points to consider it an example of minor literature, in accordance with the proposal of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. To do this, we will start from three moments: one that establishes, in a general way, the basic characteristics of the graphic novel, and in which a brief definition of this is proposed, based on the discussion about its presumed difference with the comic, thus as its validity as an object of philosophical study. In a second moment, some key points about minor literature will be presented, according to Deleuze and Guattari, to later end, in a third moment, with the analysis of the mentioned graphic novel, which gives an answer to the question about its possibility as minor literature and its importance for understanding the Colombian armed conflict. A methodology of textual analysis has been followed both by the aforementioned authors and other experts on the subject, with which a conceptual framework has been obtained that validates the hypothesis on the inclusion of the graphic novel analyzed as minor literature, with which it is concluded, on the one hand, the importance of the approach to literature from this perspective, for the study of complex social phenomena –in this case, the Colombian armed conflict– and on the other, the importance of the comic or graphic novel as a means of expression in a society.