This chapter argues that Rayco Pulido Rodríguez’s graphic novel Nela is an “ecoadaptation” of the 1878 novel Marianela, by Spanish Realist Benito Pérez Galdós. Pulido Rodríguez’s adaptation visually and narratively diminishes the original’s ecophobic underpinnings by embedding his characters within relational ecologies that blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman entities. Through graphic representations of sound-symbolic words and palindromic mise-en-page structures, Nela transforms the geo- and biospheres of Galdós’ original into multisensorial soundscapes and dynamic textual environments that engage the reader in ecological thinking. By recycling these conventions of the graphic novel and selectively combining them with the reused content of Galdós’ original, Nela not only embodies the relational and multisensorial processes essential to ecological thinking, it also explicitly foregrounds the environmental critique that Galdós overlooks in his original.

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Geo-Echolocating and Bio-Boomeranging: Rayco Pulido Rodríguez’s Nela as Ecoadaptation of Galdos’ Marianela

  • Christopher R. Carter

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This chapter argues that Rayco Pulido Rodríguez’s graphic novel Nela is an “ecoadaptation” of the 1878 novel Marianela, by Spanish Realist Benito Pérez Galdós. Pulido Rodríguez’s adaptation visually and narratively diminishes the original’s ecophobic underpinnings by embedding his characters within relational ecologies that blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman entities. Through graphic representations of sound-symbolic words and palindromic mise-en-page structures, Nela transforms the geo- and biospheres of Galdós’ original into multisensorial soundscapes and dynamic textual environments that engage the reader in ecological thinking. By recycling these conventions of the graphic novel and selectively combining them with the reused content of Galdós’ original, Nela not only embodies the relational and multisensorial processes essential to ecological thinking, it also explicitly foregrounds the environmental critique that Galdós overlooks in his original.