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Intertextuality and Writing for an Affinity: Analysis of the Graphic Novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) is an autobiographical work that depicts in a unique way the identities and relationships of characters that are difficult to be represented in any other way but as a graphic novel, consisting of a combination of images and text. Citation of various texts, including photographs, letters, and newspapers, has defined the work as a kind of queer archive and, especially, several literary critics have recognized intertextuality as one of the core themes of the work. Along with the text, the format of the work, the graphic novel, in which the image forms an important axis of the work, suggests that intertextuality works in a different way than in traditional literary forms where only the text is written. Text and intertextual images cited from various literary works play an important role in the relationship between Alison Bechdel, Bruce Bechdel who is Alison’s father, and Helen Bechdel who is Alison’s mother and Bruce’s wife. As such, this paper will briefly outline the intertextuality with Fun Home and examine the way in which the relationship between the three characters is represented in the interaction between images and text. The inherent intertextuality of the imaging of the graphic novel shows the relationship between Bruce and Allison and mediates it to explore the process of changing relationships and the possibility of reconciliation between the two characters. Furthermore, the relationship between Alison and Helen, which cannot be explained only by intertextuality, is examined through the writing practices of the two characters. Writing along with intertextuality serves as a means for Alison and Helen to escape Bruce's influence and find their own independent identities while also enabling affinity between the two characters.
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) is an autobiographical work that depicts in a unique way the identities and relationships of characters that are difficult to be represented in any other way but as a graphic novel, consisting of a combination of images and text. Citation of various texts, including photographs, letters, and newspapers, has defined the work as a kind of queer archive and, especially, several literary critics have recognized intertextuality as one of the core themes of the work. Along with the text, the format of the work, the graphic novel, in which the image forms an important axis of the work, suggests that intertextuality works in a different way than in traditional literary forms where only the text is written. Text and intertextual images cited from various literary works play an important role in the relationship between Alison Bechdel, Bruce Bechdel who is Alison’s father, and Helen Bechdel who is Alison’s mother and Bruce’s wife. As such, this paper will briefly outline the intertextuality with Fun Home and examine the way in which the relationship between the three characters is represented in the interaction between images and text. The inherent intertextuality of the imaging of the graphic novel shows the relationship between Bruce and Allison and mediates it to explore the process of changing relationships and the possibility of reconciliation between the two characters. Furthermore, the relationship between Alison and Helen, which cannot be explained only by intertextuality, is examined through the writing practices of the two characters. Writing along with intertextuality serves as a means for Alison and Helen to escape Bruce's influence and find their own independent identities while also enabling affinity between the two characters.
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