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Genre/Form: | Comic strips, books, etc Autobiography Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels Comic books, strips, etc Bandes dessinées Biography Comic books, strips, etc |
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Named Person: | Alison Bechdel; D W Winnicott; Alison Bechdel; Alison Bechdel; Alison Bechdel |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alison Bechdel |
ISBN: | 9780618982509 0618982507 9780544002234 0544002237 |
OCLC Number: | 780063960 |
Description: | 286 [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The ordinary devoted mother -- Transitional objects -- True and false self -- Mind -- Hate -- Mirror -- The use of an object. |
Responsibility: | Alison Bechdel. |
Abstract:
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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- Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mother and child.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Mothers and daughters -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Winnicott, D. W -- (Donald Woods), -- 1896-1971
- Mother-Child Relations
- Psychoanalysis
- Cartoons as Topic
- NEW LIST 20120630.
- Médecine -- Bandes dessinées.
- Mère et enfant.
- Psychanalyse.
- Caricatures et dessins humoristiques.
- psychoanalysis.
- 21.39 graphic arts: other.
- Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960-
- Medicine.
- Cartoonists.
- United States.
- Roman.
- Amerikanisches Englisch.
- Comic.
- Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Graphic novels.
- Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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