Honors Projects
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the graphic novels "Are You My Mother?" and "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel. I discuss the ways in which Bechdel highlights her own family’s atypical structure and how the ambiguous presentation of familial roles causes readers to see that being in a “queer” family is actually ordinary, just as being in an “ordinary” family is queer.
Department
English
Major
English
First Advisor
Dr. Bill Albertini
First Advisor Department
English
Second Advisor
Dr. Charles Coletta
Second Advisor Department
Popular Culture
Publication Date
Spring 5-1-2017
Repository Citation
Priore, Anna, "Transcendence of Familial Expectations in Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Novels" (2017). Honors Projects. 252.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/252
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