Today's comics for yesterday's authors, when comics become a tool for building a literary heritage
This article focuses on the analysis of a project based on the enhancement of the literary heritage using the Ninth Art authors’ work, which was ordered by the cultural agency ALCA (Agence Livre, Cinéma et Audiovisuel) in the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region. This project keeps working on enhancing strategies of the written heritage, which were developed by local libraries, by ALCA, DRAC (Nouvelle Aquitaine Management of cultural matters) and BNF (France National Library), and also aims at reflecting on discourses and narratives about the written heritage and more specifically about the literary one. Indeed, in a communication approach (Davallon, 2006), we can consider that heritage publicizing implies the transmission of an interpretative scheme (age, fragility, representativeness, etc) which allows everyone to acknowledge this specific object as part of a legacy. Consequently, we should question the representations conveyed by these comic strips; in other words, we should monitor the alterations of this “cultural being” (Jeanneret, 2014) that is to say : the literary heritage. In fine, we will ask ourselves to what extent this action can have an impact on the patrimonialising process of literature in a specific territory.