Sich erinnern, Bild-Text werden

Abstract

Memories can be fleeting, fragile and associative, and are often associated with blind spots, as memory cultural research has shown (cf. A. / J. Assmann; Erll). The literary implementation of memory processes consciously plays with the (re)construction of the past that is no longer tangible, which also involves a specific relationship between narratology and memory (cf. Gansel). From the point of view of the present ego, the remembered ego is shaped, influenced and memories are not only labelled but possibly also overwritten. For comics this results in a wide range of presentation possibilities: The combination of text and image always provides two parallel channels of narration and opens up a narrative playground for the complex interweaving of different time, memory and narrative levels. The article examines Alison Bechdel’s comic Fun Home (2006) and traces the memory processes realized in it.

Doch dann schrieb und erinnerte, rekonstruierte, philosophierte, analysierte, erklärte, reimte mir zusammen, fügte hinzu, lies aus, erläuterte, zeichnete, erträumte, ja erfand ich mein Leben! (Flix 2003, S. 64)