Because of their multimodality, the master's thesis considers comics, including graphic novels, an excellent blueprint for reconstructing past events and experience as well as representing the interactive process of remembering and forgetting. Relying on findings from the comics studies, the autobiography theory, memory studies and postclassical narratology, the thesis explores the anchor points of the creative process and narrativity in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs Fun Home (2006) and Are You My Mother? (2012). The thesis points out that memory gaps and errors are a key part of the autobiographical discourse criteria while exploring the importance of blanks in the narrative and the possibility of the reader filling in these gaps.
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