Janine Utell examines James Joyce, intertextuality, and the transgressive figure of the daughter in two recent graphic memoirs: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) and Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot (2012).
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Intimacies in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: The Case of Joan
Janine Utell’s reading of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home reveals the complex ways the character of Joan serves as a conduit for facilitating multiple intimacies in the situation created by Bechdel’s father’s death.
Adaptation and Narrative in Ulysses “Seen”
Janine Utell explores the narrative strategies at work in Robert Berry’s comics adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Ulysses “Seen.” A emphasis on perspective and focalization, using ideas from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Berry’s visual vocabulary, reveals Joyce’s concerns with the relationship between intimacy and storytelling.
