![]() ![]() ![]() My thesis is that the literary works and stories she has woven into her story mirror her own story and exist to further illustrate her struggles coming of age. ![]() Her memoir is full of pop culture and book references. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is a prime example of those graphic novels that use intertextuality. Anderson perfectly captures the spirit and essence of Fun Home – which is the graphic memoir this paper deals with.Ī lot of graphic novels work with Intertextuality, because as a visual medium they can represent or quote another text even better than a normal novel. “Alison Bechdel, in her 2006 graphic memoir entitled Fun Home, also utilizes the intersections of belonging, home space, and storytelling in order to unravel Bechdel’s relationship with her father, Bruce, who died by an apparent suicide after his homosexuality and his many affairs with younger men were exposed.” (Anderson 142). 3.1 Daedalus and Icarus – Bruce and Alison ![]()
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