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Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Olsza2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Are You My Mother?", Autobiography, Bechdel. Alison, Photography, USA Creators: Olsza Collection: Image [&] Narrative |
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Abstract |
In her 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel employs numerous family photographs to authenticate and comment on her complicated family history. Drawing on the use of photography in Fun Home, I examine the manner in which photography functions in Bechdel’s other graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (2012). The photographs of Alison and her mother that are carefully selected and incorporated into the structure of Are You My Mother? do not only function as documents. In fact, as I shall argue, they can be regarded as mirrors, or critical reflections on the role and presentation of the self in graphic memoir. In Are You My Mother?, photography often has an interrogative (and not simply referential or authenticating) function. Not so much caught up with discovering the truth about a particular family history, photography is used to expose the complexity of the narrative of the self.
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