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Are you my mother? : a comic drama
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 Winnicott.
A 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780618982509
- ISBN: 0618982507
- ISBN: 9780544002234
- ISBN: 0544002237
- Physical Description: 286 [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object. |
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| Genre: | Autobiography. Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Graphic novels. Graphic novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APLS | 741.5 BEC | 31291002860029 | MODEL LIBRARY | Available | - |
