Marie-Anne Dentzer
In my thesis I discuss the mother-daughter relationships in a number of graphic memoirs by women, published predominantly in the last decade. The decision to look at the medium of the graphic memoir/novel is based on its distinctiveness, that the combination of word and image offers a rich and complex area for analysis, and the rapidly increasing importance of the graphic novel in English. This latter point includes a shift from subculture to mainstream which links with the time period of...