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Artifice in Fun Home
Bechdel uses quotes from literature to symbolize and highlight her father’s own distance and inability to idependently express himself. These manifest themselves in many different ways, whether in dialogue or through the reflections of the narrator. Bechdel’s father reads constantly, and quotes … Continue reading
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Paternal Role
Alison Bechdel, in “Fun Home,” re-evaluates her father’s life after his death. After learning that he was gay, she visits (through words and pictures) moments in her past that were significant or now seem significant. Bechdel sees her father differently … Continue reading
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Fun Home
In Bechdel’s tragicomic Fun Home, the use of indirect voice is often employed through the artifice. In her use of text, Bechdel addresses the reader as a confidant and a casual friend. The reader is immediately ushered into her clever … Continue reading
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Narrated and Narrating “I” in Fun Home
In Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel Fun Home the narrated and narrating “I” are given an interesting perspective not yet viewed in our previous readings. In Fun Home, I find that there are two different protagonist characters for the story, not … Continue reading
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Canada: A Beautiful Land, A Freezing Land
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Bechdel and the Process of Creating Memory
Perhaps one of the most insightful moments into Bechdel’s work occurred for me as I watched her describe the process she used to create Fun Home. As Bechdel described the way in which she meticulously crafted her drawings around reality … Continue reading
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A Moral Life Lesson, as illustrated through old school navy tattoos
I really loved everyone’s comics but I didn’t bother to download the program. Rather, I opted to drawing my comics out by hand and writing the words on separate paper and then using ‘crazy’ scissors to cut out the words … Continue reading
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An Artificial Life
In exploring the extant to which her father constructed his life in a deceptive way, Alison Bechdel implicates herself in the studied artifice of his life and death. Profoundly impacted by the echoes of her father’s death, Bechdel’s memories of … Continue reading
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