Month: January 2020

So what does now knowing the play that Bechdel references in Fun Home – through her recollection of her mother’s preparation for the role of Lady Bracknell – contribute to our understanding of the graphic memoir?
Jan 19

So what does now knowing the play that Bechdel references in Fun Home – through her recollection of her mother’s preparation for the role of Lady Bracknell – contribute to our understanding of the graphic memoir?

  In the sixth chapter of her graphic memoir ‘Fun Home’, Bechdel recalls the summer that her mother spent preparing for her role as Lady Bracknell in the play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ The author of the play, Oscar Wilde heavily satirises his themes in the book; the values that the characters stand for…

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