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Bechdel's Confessional Perspective

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Although, categorising Bechdel’s graphic novels as autobiographical is inaccurate as they follow the memoir genre more thoroughly. Therefore, the texts are confessional memoirs and as Phoebe Gloeckner states ‘factual truth has little significance in the pursuit of emotional truth.’ This means that the historical authenticity mentioned above is not necessary for a confessional narrative but rather the personal perspective. The graphic novel form emphasises the personal by allowing the authors presence to be explicitly known. Thierry Groensteen states ‘it is not therefore possible to invoke any effect of erasure of the narrator, which is normally the consequence of this “happening as we watch” impression” such as in films where scenes disappear

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