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The Art of Memoir through Graphic Novels and Prose

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The Art of Memoir through Graphic Novels and Prose

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Muller, Rose Jacqueline Elena Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Marks, Dr. Clifford Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
University of Wyoming (keyDate="yes")
2009-05-15

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Graphic novels in America are rising as a viable and respected art form and recently are becoming the newest and most creative medium to write memoirs. Although writing one’s own story seems like a simplistic task, it can for be an excruciating and exhausting mental and physical endeavor that creates self awareness and meaning. Notoriously some of the most famous and pervasive graphic novel memoirs can take up to a decade to produce, including Art Spiegelman’s two volume epic, Maus which he clocked 11 years and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home took her 7 years to produce. The textual and narrative elements combined with artistic skills create unique and special forms of memoir, offering new forms of cultural significance in the new millennium, and is becoming a new form of self expression. After spending several months looking at some of the best examples, I have attempted to viably tell my own story through this medium in an artful and meaningful manner, critically examining myself in a limited space, time, and energy vacuum. note
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Graphic novels

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memoirs

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Art Spiegelman

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Alison Bechdel

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Maus

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Fun Home

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Undergrauate Research Day 2009

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