Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home
«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, Queen's University»
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Modern Language Association of America
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781603293587
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«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, Queen's University»