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This article analyses the graphic novel Walicho (2023) by Argentinian comics artist Sole Otero, as it intertwines space theory, feminist critique, and decolonial perspectives through visual storytelling. Structured as an anthology, the narrative follows three Spanish witches whose migration to Buenos Aires in the eighteenth century catalyses social and colonial transformations within Mapuche land. The work explores Buenos Aires as a colonial and postcolonial space shaped by hybrid epistemologies, drawing on indigenous cosmology, Catholic imagery, and European witchcraft. Through characters across historical periods, Walicho criticises enduring colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist structures while interrogating the possibilities and limits of feminist solidarity.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2026.50.2.118-130
Date of publication: 2026-07-10 10:36:31
Date of submission: 2025-12-29 21:01:23
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