The enunciative mode in the comic "Miss Davis: The life and struggles of Angela Davis"

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to analyze the enunciative mode of discourse, looking at the narrative, descriptive and argumentative modes, both in verbal and non-verbal elements. This work refers to the analysis of the introductory chapter of the book "Miss Davis: THE LIFE AND FIGHTS OF ANGELA DAVIS". The book's introduction is entitled "Black Panther Party Headquarters, Oakland, 1969", in comic strips, which are part of the Black Panther Party's program and present Angela Davis' participation in the party. The research methodology is bibliographical and qualitative, with Patrick Charaudeau's Semiolinguistic Discourse Analysis as its theoretical basis, the Modes of Discourse Organization and, as a basis for analysis, the Enunciative Mode of Discourse. The book is about the progressive struggle of the African-American people for equal rights, with Angela Davis' participation being fundamental for black feminism in the USA. According to Focault (2014), the action of the characters in the comics, when enunciating, questions the sovereignty of truth, which is the concept of hierarchy of the white, cis man. In other words, when the Black Panthers question, they suspend the sovereignty of the discourse of the signifier (the police and the state).