앨리슨 벡델의 펀 홈에 나타난 퀴어 가족의 복합적 관계성 다시쓰기
Rewriting the Compound Relationships of a Queer Family in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
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The purpose of this essay is to analyze how Alison Bechdel, the author of 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, rewrites her fatherʼs life and embraces the queer possibilities in Fun Home. Fun Home is a memoir of Bechdelʼs coming of age, mainly focused on Bechdelʼs relationship with her father, Bruce Bechdel, who died when Alison just started her new life as a young queer artist. Alison suspects that her fatherʼs self-loathing and feeling of shame for being a homosexual might have driven him to suicide. She compares her open queerness with the closeted homosexuality of her father, drawing a definite distinction between Alison and Bruce, and claims that her father was a victim of homophobia. However, by rewriting Bruceʼs life and the relationship between Alison and her father through Fun Homeʼs cyclical and non-linear narrative structure that provides multiple and revised perspectives on events, Bechdel adds another dimension to her father, and shows the complex and indefinite, ‘queer’ possibility of his life. Furthermore, this rereading and rewriting challenge the notion of the dominant culture which seeks unambiguous and definite ways to define a subject and identity.
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The purpose of this essay is to analyze how Alison Bechdel, the author of 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, rewrites her fatherʼs life and embraces the queer possibilities in Fun Home. Fun Home is a memoir of Bechdelʼs coming of age, mainly focused on Bechdelʼs relationship with her father, Bruce Bechdel, who died when Alison just started her new life as a young queer artist. Alison suspects that her fatherʼs self-loathing and feeling of shame for being a homosexual might have driven him to suicide. She compares her open queerness with the closeted homosexuality of her father, drawing a definite distinction between Alison and Bruce, and claims that her father was a victim of homophobia. However, by rewriting Bruceʼs life and the relationship between Alison and her father through Fun Homeʼs cyclical and non-linear narrative structure that provides multiple and revised perspectives on events, Bechdel adds another dimension to her father, and shows the complex and indefinite, ‘queer’ possibility of his life. Furthermore, this rereading and rewriting challenge the notion of the dominant culture which seeks unambiguous and definite ways to define a subject and identity.
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