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; intertextuality with modernist novels, Greek myths, and other works; and frank representations of sexuality and death 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.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"A valuable, thoughtful, and broadly engaged set of essays that will inform the teaching of Fun Home across a number of levels: late high school, undergraduate, and graduate." Jane Tolmie, Queens University
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
£ 1.50
Within U.S.A.
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: new. Seller Inventory # NewCamp1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Big Bill's Books, Wimberley, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: very good. In Used Condition. Seller Inventory # Ubyused1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think1603293590
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 32991955-n
Quantity: 5 available
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment. Seller Inventory # SilverDragon1603293590
Quantity: 1 available