Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has 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. This volume offers strategies for teaching Fun Home in a variety of courses, including literature, women's and gender studies, art, and education.

Summary

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the nonfiction graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel in college courses in literature, women's and gender studies, and art, including considerations of autobiography theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary and historical allusions, and the work's musical adaptation. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Product details

• Authors: GARDINER
• Assisted by: Judith Kegan Gardiner (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Association
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies