A Diary of a Teenage Girl
I appreciated her inclusion of the drawings she had done as a teenager, this added a personal touch and enhanced the relatability of the piece.
Gloeckner’s approach to the novel as a combination of prose in the form of diary entries, comic strips, full-page illustrations as well as detailed smaller stills from the text was an interesting arrangement, her uniqueness in style an interesting structure to the piece.
I think it raises an interesting point of discussion that the character preferred to type her diary using a typewritten, a mechanical form of documentation but then also chose to incorporate drawings which are a more personal, hand-made touch.
I found the text to be rather lengthy and redundant in content. The coming of age through sexual enlightenment and exposure to drugs, and other “counter-culture” is a plotline I find to be rather overdone. Her cyclical encounters with characters and locations, reaffirmed by her intentionally repetitive word patterns add to the superfluousness I felt.
I do appreciate the narrator’s personal agency and self-assuredness. Throughout the text Minnie never once blames her situation on others or assumes the position of victim, she takes ownership of her wants, desires and actions and does not apologize for them.
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