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Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Alison Bechdel.

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Are you my mother? : a comic drama / Alison Bechdel.

Author

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PN6727.B3757 Z46 2012	Off-site

Description

286 [4] pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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 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.

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Contents

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

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Harvard Library