Materialność intertekstualności. Figura cienia w komiksie Fun Home Alison Bechdel
The Materiality of Intertextuality: the Figure of the Shadow in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I analyse Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical comic book Fun Home, which hasbeen hailed as the “event of the year,” demonstrating how its visual and verbal layer engagesin an intertextual dialogue with Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Proust’s novel becomesthe main intermediary in the double (graphic and textual) coding of gender, sexual, and artisticidentity of the main characters: father and daughter. The figure of the shadow plays a crucialrole in description and representation; adapted from Jungian psychoanalysis, it takes ona more material and less abstract character in Bechdel’s comic book.

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