are you my mother a comic drama by alison bechdel

The price of entry to Are You My Mother? is steep, but the rewards are also great.īechdel opens the new memoir with the problem of telling her mother about the first book about the father. As serious readers understand, Alison's relationship with writers and texts interact with Alison's relationships with individuals in her life. As in Fun Home, Bechdel again illustrates how integral reading is to the life of an artist by weaving in commentary by writers like Virginia Woolf and Adrienne Rich, psychoanalysts like Freud, Jung, Donald Winnicott, and Alice Miller, and children's book authors like A.A. Moving back and forth between those five years of working on the new book and incidents in the past, Bechdel also recursively depicts her long-term relationships with two therapists and several lovers. Are You My Mother? tells Alison's story of writing the new memoir about her mother in the wake of Fun Home.

A powerful, but elusive presence in Fun Home, the textual Helen remains somewhat of a mystery in Are You My Mother? but representative, perhaps, of a woman of her generation (born in 1930s) in several significant ways. The new book Are You My Mother? is fundamentally a meditation on and mediation with perhaps the one reader of Fun Home that matters most to Bechdel-her mother, Helen Fontana Bechdel. Named the best book of the year in 2006 by Time Magazine, Fun Home was a bestseller and garnered numerous honors including a Lambda Literary Award and an Eisner Award. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.Īlison Bechdel's new graphic memoir, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, inevitably will be compared to her first one entitled Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Those that resonate the most depict a daughter who is so often hurt when simply looking for a mother's love.Review of Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama.

Bechdel ties it all together with her touching and sometimes haunting images, crimson-hued drawings that convey an astonishing range of emotions. The result is not only a probing and mordantly funny inquiry of Bechdel's intellectually curious but distant mother - who stops kissing Alison goodnight at age 7 because she's 'too old' - but also a profound look at intimacy, sexuality, art and religion.

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Are you my mother a comic drama by alison bechdel