domingo, 12 de febrero de 2017



     Throughout the times, books have been classified in different ways depending on the periods of time. These different periods have had some ‘experts’ such as educators or religious people who classified books according to the values that represented the period of the moment. These classifications that canonize the books, left other important books out of the readers’ view. For instance, comics could not be part of the canonization for an educator who is religious. But the time evolves, and classifications too. For Aaron Meskin, who considers comics as literature, they could be taken into account for a ‘canonization’ since there’s evidence that comics evidently are literature, an evolution of it. Comics are a hybrid that contains images and text, they have a structure that is organized in sequences, and are original. A very good example of this is ‘Fun Home’.


        In this comic we can see the perception of Alison about her father. In the first chapters, the author relates the relationship between her father and the rest of the family, that are treated as furniture as said by Alison. The comic shows a parallel between Alison who wants to come out and Bruce who has always tried to hide. Every chapter develops an idea that contributes to the story. This story follows a sequence, it is original in its description. It goes from past to present in order to show memories. The drawings show several details such as names of books, furniture and physical features of the characters. ‘Fun Home’  fixed perfectly into the description about what it is literature, not just for its originality and the structure, but also for the most important, the story that is describe.


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