Bibliograph

Are you my mother?, a comic drama, Alison Bechdel

Type

Label

Are you my mother?, a comic drama, Alison Bechdel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Are you my mother?

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

780063960

Responsibility statement

Alison Bechdel

Sub title

a comic drama

Summary

Graphic memoir about Bechdel's troubled relationship with her distant, unhappy mother and her experiences with psychoanalysis, with particular reference to the work of Donald WinnicottA memoir told in graphic novel form of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Bechdel's mother was a voracious reader, music lover, and 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

Table Of Contents

The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object

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