앨리슨 베첼의 『즐거운 집: 한 가족의 희비극』에 나타난 신화 원형 분석 (A Mythology Archetypal Approach to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic)

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· 발행기관 : 한국중앙영어영문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 영어영문학연구 / 54권 / 3호 / 289 ~ 306페이지
· 저자명 : 이영애

초록

Mythology is “the archetypes of literature exist” argues Frye. This study aims at analyzing Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic from the perspective of Icarian mythology. Alison Bechdel, a well-known American feminist and cartoonist, explores father- daughter relationship and rewrites her family history focused on her father[Bruce Bechdel]’s death. Alison suffers from trauma about her father’s death because she confessed herself as a lesbian right before Bruce’s car accident.
Despite using Icarian myth, Bechdel avoids a dichotomous way of thinking. Alison and Bruce share the dual roles of Daedalus and Icarus. At the beginning of Fun Home, Bechdel describes her father as Icarus who was destined to “plummet from the sky” and also “Daedalus of decor.” Looking back and rewriting family’s history, Alison recognizes her innate yearning for an emotional closeness to her father and sympathizes his alienation and solitude. Bruce who is “gay” is ready to catch Alison when she finds her “erotic truth.” Fun Home shows Bechdel’s sophisticated skills and enables her to “fly” as a lesbian artist.

영어초록

Mythology is “the archetypes of literature exist” argues Frye. This study aims at analyzing Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic from the perspective of Icarian mythology. Alison Bechdel, a well-known American feminist and cartoonist, explores father- daughter relationship and rewrites her family history focused on her father[Bruce Bechdel]’s death. Alison suffers from trauma about her father’s death because she confessed herself as a lesbian right before Bruce’s car accident.
Despite using Icarian myth, Bechdel avoids a dichotomous way of thinking. Alison and Bruce share the dual roles of Daedalus and Icarus. At the beginning of Fun Home, Bechdel describes her father as Icarus who was destined to “plummet from the sky” and also “Daedalus of decor.” Looking back and rewriting family’s history, Alison recognizes her innate yearning for an emotional closeness to her father and sympathizes his alienation and solitude. Bruce who is “gay” is ready to catch Alison when she finds her “erotic truth.” Fun Home shows Bechdel’s sophisticated skills and enables her to “fly” as a lesbian artist.

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