Queering the Family, Reclaiming the Father: Proustian Evocations in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Michael, Olga orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0523-9929 (2020) Queering the Family, Reclaiming the Father: Proustian Evocations in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. Biography, 43 (2). pp. 430-457. ISSN 0162-4962

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0036

Abstract

This essay argues that Alison Bechdel’s Proustian allusions in Fun Home structure queer gender and sexuality performances that allow Alison to reclaim and reunite with her distant and ultimately lost father. Thus, it points to the potential value of intertextual readings in identifying positive accounts of queer lives in the field of “autographics.”


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