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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