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Gardiner, Judith Kegan, ed. Approaches to Teaching Bechdel’s Fun Home. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2018. Added by: joachim (29/06/2025, 17:25) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781603293587 BibTeX citation key: Gardiner2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Fun Home", Autobiography, Bechdel. Alison, Collection of essays, Didactics Creators: Gardiner Publisher: The Modern Language Assoc. of America (New York) |
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has quickly joined the ranks of celebrated literary graphic novels. Set in part at a family-run funeral home, the book explores Alison’s complicated relationship with her father, a closeted gay man. Amid the tensions of her home life, Alison discovers her own lesbian sexuality and her talent for drawing. The coming-of-age story and graphic format appeal to students. However, the book’s nonlinear structure, frank representations of sexuality and death, and intertextuality with modernist novels, Greek myths, and other works present challenges in the classroom. This volume offers strategies for teaching Fun Home in a variety of courses, including literature, women’s and gender studies, art, and education. Part 1, “Materials,” outlines the text’s literary, historical, and theoretical allusions. The essays of part 2, “Approaches,” emphasize the work’s genres, including autobiography and graphic narrative, as well as its psychological dimensions, including trauma, disability, and queer identity. The essays give options for reading Fun Home along with Bechdel’s letters and drafts; her long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For; the Broadway musical adaptation of the book; and other stories of LGBQT lives.
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