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  • “The Complexity of Loss Its...
    McCullough, Kate

    American literature, 6/2018, Letnik: 90, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    This article assesses the queer world-making potentiality of the comics form as demonstrated in Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir . By deploying the temporal openings of the graphic form, challenges the putative fixity of heteronormative family time and the temporality of kinship lines more broadly. Bechdel represents this queering of generation and kinship as a constituent part of the young Alison’s coming-of-age as a queer comics artist; this temporal reworking simultaneously makes possible a queer reparative web of affiliation. Building on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s model of reparative reading, I demonstrate how ’s form produces a version of reparation that emerges from a shared artistry and embraces ambivalent affective responses to the past. Ultimately, Bechdel produces a queer feminist reparative reading that understands futurity’s potential as complex and grounded in both the pain and pleasure of the queer body.