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Representing small traumas in graphic memoirs: An analysis of Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Carpentier, Catherine 
Promotor(s) :
Munos, Delphine
Date of defense : 15-Jun-2023/24-Jun-2023 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/17184
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| Title : | Representing small traumas in graphic memoirs: An analysis of Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home |
| Translated title : | [fr] La représentation des traumatismes dans les mémoires graphiques: analyse de "Gender Queer" de Maia Kobabe et "Fun Home" d'Alison Bechdel |
| Author : | Carpentier, Catherine
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| Date of defense : | 15-Jun-2023/24-Jun-2023 |
| Advisor(s) : | Munos, Delphine
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| Committee's member(s) : | Steyaert, Kris
Druet, Anne-Cécile
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| Language : | English |
| Number of pages : | 99 |
| Keywords : | [en] gender [en] queer [en] graphic [en] memoir [en] trauma |
| Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Languages & linguistics |
| Target public : | Researchers Professionals of domain Student General public Other |
| Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
| Degree: | Master en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité didactique |
| Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[en] This thesis analyses the way in which small traumas are represented in two graphic memoirs: Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer (2019) and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006). The notion of “small traumas” was developed by Pedro Moura in Visualising Small Traumas (2022) and emphasises the importance of repetition in traumatic experiences. In the case of small traumas, the victims are not faced with one major traumatic event, but rather with the accumulation of ‘smaller’ crises. This is the case with Kobabe’s and Bechdel’s stories, which are linked to the queer experience. This thesis explores the importance of the graphic medium to depict such traumatic experiences. Due to their graphic dimension, graphic memoirs are particularly efficient: they allow non-linearity, have more emotional impact, greater accessibility, etc.
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