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This study aims to examine the crisis of happiness and the aspects of affect aliens in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. In contrast to its title of Fun Home, the wounds and bad feelings of family members play a decisive role in the main narrative. People in Fun Home, illustrated as a “mildly autistic colony”, desire a different meaning of happiness so they are tagged as ‘affect aliens,’ a term associated with a certain nuance of unhappiness and eventually isolated and considered as a condition of misfortune. The lives of affect aliens can be summarized in three words: anxiety, fear, and tension. In the heterosexual patriarchal system, Bruce, who plays the happy father hiding his queer identity, neither reveals his desires nor keeps up with what society wants. On the other hand, Helen, Alison’s mother, belatedly finds the real life she wants. Unlike her parents, Alison is willing to admit her queer identity and the alienation it has caused. Her search for identity is accompanied by the process of recalling her father and newly coloring his desires and failure of happiness. Bechdel rejects following a formula for happiness and tries to rewrite the meaning of a good life on her own.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말
Ⅱ. 브루스―감추기
Ⅲ. 헬렌―보기 시작하기
Ⅳ. 앨리슨―드러내기
Ⅴ. 나가면서―불행과 더불어 살아가기
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저자

• 안아람 [ A Ram Ahn | 초당대학교 조교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820