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Dec 3, 2021

Framing Frames: Reconstructing Truth in Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”

Have you ever listened to one of your grandfathers’ tall tales and replied with an incredulous, “did that really happen?” Maybe you press further, “do you have a photograph?” Perhaps the memento satisfies your doubt, or maybe you’re left wondering, is his story true? …

Alison Bechdel

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Framing Frames: Reconstructing Truth in Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”
Framing Frames: Reconstructing Truth in Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”
Katie Martin

Katie Martin

Art Director at The Atlantic, closet art theorist and religious studies aficionado. Views here are my own.

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