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Title: Queering the family, reclaiming the father "Proustian Evocations in Alison Bechdel’s fun home"
Authors: Michael, Olga
Keywords: Queering the family
Reclaiming the father
Proustian Evocations
Alison Bechdel’s fun home
Issue Date: 2020
Series/Report no.: Biography;Vol. 43, No. 02 .- P.430-458
Abstract: In this essay, I examine the representation of the father/daughter relationship in Alison Bechdels Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, and I propose that via its intertextual references to Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past the graphic memoir recasts the distant pair into a queerly reunited one.¹ Fun Home recreates Alison’s problematic relationship with her closeted gay father, Bruce, during her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, when she comes out as a lesbian, and up until his death four months afterwards. Bechdel reproduces via the comics medium a variety of archival materials, including family photographs, her parents’ love letters, and her childhood diaries, to tell the story of growing up with her distant father.
URI: https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71489
ISSN: 0162-4962
Appears in Collections:Biography

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