“Coisas de menino e coisas de menina"

Um ensaio sobre gênero e a construção da identidade a partir da Graphic Novel Fun Home

Abstract

Fun Home is an autobiography in graphic novel format, by Alison Bechdel. A work in which the author discusses what she calls her "journey of self-discovery". It includes episodes that marked his trajectory, in particular, the confrontation of his father with his own sexuality; the commitment of his mother in maintaining the appearances and the search of the author as a lesbian adolescent by its identity. Through this work, it is possible to observe Stuart Hall's assertion that identity is a process, always under construction. Fun Home allows us to digress on issues that deal with identity, gender, sexuality and normaLization of social roles. Through the process of identification and exclusion carried out by Bechdel. Since, at all times, there is a contrast between her personal ideas and wishes, with books, characters, social roles observed, the reading of feminist authors and, above all, the relationship of the father with his own sexuality. Thus confirming Tomaz Silva's proposition that differences are implied in any identification.