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Mythology is “the archetypes of literature exist” argues Frye. This study aims at analyzing Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic from the perspective of Icarian mythology. Alison Bechdel, a well-known American feminist and cartoonist, explores father- daughter relationship and rewrites her family history focused on her father[Bruce Bechdel]’s death. Alison suffers from trauma about her father’s death because she confessed herself as a lesbian right before Bruce’s car accident. Despite using Icarian myth, Bechdel avoids a dichotomous way of thinking. Alison and Bruce share the dual roles of Daedalus and Icarus. At the beginning of Fun Home, Bechdel describes her father as Icarus who was destined to “plummet from the sky” and also “Daedalus of decor.” Looking back and rewriting family’s history, Alison recognizes her innate yearning for an emotional closeness to her father and sympathizes his alienation and solitude. Bruce who is “gay” is ready to catch Alison when she finds her “erotic truth.” Fun Home shows Bechdel’s sophisticated skills and enables her to “fly” as a lesbian artist.

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저자

• 이영애 [ Yi, Young-ae | 한라대학교 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810