Are You My Mother?

Are You My Mother?

Softcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven.

Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother — to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

Book Information

Main Genre
Specialized Books
Sub Genre
Society & Social Sciences
Format
Softcover
Pages
286
Price
16.00 €

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Alison Bechdel verwebt auch in diesem Comic über die Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter wieder Autobiographisches mit vielen anderen Themen (hier vor allem Psychoanalyse und Leben & Werk von Donald Winnicott). Es gibt Bezüge zu Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich und dem Theater (Spielen). Ich hatte das Gefühl, fünf Bücher auf einmal zu lesen. Eine große Empfehlung!

Keine Ahnung was mir das Buch sagen wollte, es war weder das was ich erwartet habe, noch das was ich lesen wollte und rückblickend hätte ich wohl gleich abbrechen sollen, als mir das klar wurde.

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