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| fun home by alison bechdel: Fun Home Alison Bechdel, 2007 A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned fun home, as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Are You My Mother? Alison Bechdel, 2012-05-01 The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem |
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| fun home by alison bechdel: Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home Judith Kegan Gardiner, 2018-10-01 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 LGBTQ lives. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, 2008-06-10 A course on comics creation offers lessons on lettering, story, structure, and panel layout, providing a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Rosalie Lightning Tom Hart, 2016-02-02 A Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist, Amazon Best Book of 2016, one of The Washington Post's Best Graphic Novels of 2016, and one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2016 ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family's journey through loss. Hart uses the graphic form to articulate his and his wife's on-going search for meaning in the aftermath of Rosalie's death, exploring themes of grief, hopelessness, rebirth, and eventually finding hope again. Hart creatively portrays the solace he discovers in nature, philosophy, great works of literature, and art across all mediums in this expressively honest and loving tribute to his baby girl. Rosalie Lighting is a graphic masterpiece chronicling a father's undying love. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Calling Dr. Laura Nicole J. Georges, 2013 @Calling Dr Laura tells the story of what happens to you when you are raised in a family of secrets, and what happens to your brain (and heart) when you learn the truth from an unlikely source [iteur]. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Undertaker's Daughter Kate Mayfield, 2014-08-28 'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small town on the Kentucky and Tennessee border. It was only a ninety-minute drive, but it might as well have been to Alaska. When our big boat of a car glided into Jubilee we circled the town square and headed towards the residential section of Main Street. My father pulled the car over and our five dark heads turned to face a huge, slightly run down house. My parents were total strangers to this tiny enclave, but it didn't matter because my father had finally realised his dream in this old house, which was to own his own funeral home.' |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Fate of the Artist Eddie Campbell, 2006-05-02 In his latest graphic novel, Eddie Campbell conducts an investigation into his own sudden disappearance.In wildly comical reenactments of incidents from his curious life, his part is played by an actor. With audacious literary sleight of hand, heputs words into the mouths of those who knew him. Clues aresought in artistic blow-outs from the history of all the arts. And all the major players, even down to Monty the dog,get their own daily strip and Sunday page in yellowed newspaper sections from an imaginary long ago.In this creative mining of the rich resources of the comic strip language, Campbell gives us a complex meditation on the lonely demands of art amid the realities of everyday life. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for Alison Bechdel, 2008 For 25 years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. This collection gathers 60 of the newest strips. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Best American Comics 2011 Alison Bechdel, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, 2011 A collection of the best graphic pieces published in 2010. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: A Little in Love with Everyone Genevieve Katherine Hudson, 2018 Growing up queer in the deep South, Genevieve Hudson longed for stories about lives like her own. So she turned to Alison Bechdel?s groundbreaking graphic memoir, Fun Home. In its panels, she found sly references to Bechdel?s personal influences. A Little in Love with Everyone is Hudson?s journey down a rabbit hole of queer heroes like Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, and Adrienne Rich, who turned their stories into art and empowered future generations to embrace their own truths--Back cover |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Flying Kate Millett, 2000 The crew's anxieties come to a head when they have a wild party down route in Manhattan. The repercussions of that night haunt the journey home until they can be contained no further.--BOOK JACKET. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: As the Crow Flies Melanie Gillman, 2017 A black teenage lesbian finds herself stranded in a dangerous and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: A Happy Death Albert Camus, 2013-10-31 Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: No Future Lee Edelman, 2004-12-06 In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself. Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: I Have Life: Alison's Journey as told to Marianne Thamm Marianne Thamm, 2016-06-01 The triumphant story of a woman who refused to become a victim. Like an apparition, conjured out of the darkness, a young man with light blond hair pushed his face into the car. I immediately spotted the knife. It was a long, thin weapon, almost like a letter opener, with a tapering blade. It felt cold and spiny as he pressed it to my neck. When he spoke his voice, which was quiet and controlled, sounded as though it emanated from a distant planet. But every word thudded into my skull. “Move over or I’ll kill you,” he whispered. And so began Alison’s nightmare journey with the two callous killers who were to rape her, stab her so many times doctors could not count the wounds, slit her throat and leave her for dead in a filthy clearing miles from the city of Port Elizabeth which was her home. But Alison defied death. And more than that, she denied her attackers the satisfaction of destroying her life. I Have Life is the triumphant story of a woman who refused to become a victim. The courage which allowed her to move beyond severe physical and emotional trauma and to turn a devastating experience into something life-affirming and strong, is an inspiration to people everywhere. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Dykes to Watch Out for Alison Bechdel, 1986 Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Sculptor Scott McCloud, 2015-02-03 David Smith is giving his life for his art—literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life...and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Moment when James Lapine, 2007 THE STORY: THE MOMENT WHEN follows five people as their lives intertwine and separate. Steven, an artist, meets the writer Alice at a fashionable New York party hosted by Paula, a legendary literary agent. Paula's young assistant, Dana, introduces |
| fun home by alison bechdel: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You Amy Bloom, 2009-07-08 Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form. Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother and stepson meet again after fifteen years and a devastating mistake, and rediscover their familial affection for each other. And in The Story, a widow bent on seducing another woman's husband constructs and deconstructs her story until she has made the best and happiest ending possible in this world. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Happy Death Albert Camus, 2012-08-08 The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Translated from the French by Richard Howard |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Stitches David Small, 2012-07-17 A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Best Book of the Year An Amazon.com Top Ten Best Book of 2009 A Washington Post Book World’s Ten Best Book of the Year A California Literary Review Best Book of 2009 An L.A. Times Top 25 Non-Fiction Book of 2009 An NPR Best Book of the Year, Best Memoir With this stunning graphic memoir, David Small takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of his tumultuous childhood in 1950s Detroit, in a coming-of-age tale like no other. At the age of fourteen, David awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover his throat had been slashed and one of his vocal chords removed, leaving him a virtual mute. No one had told him that he had cancer and was expected to die. The resulting silence was in keeping with the atmosphere of secrecy and repressed frustration that pervaded the Small household and revealed itself in the slamming of cupboard doors, the thumping of a punching bag, the beating of a drum. Believing that they were doing their best, David’s parents did just the reverse. David’s mother held the family emotionally hostage with her furious withdrawals, even as she kept her emotions hidden — including from herself. His father, rarely present, was a radiologist, and although David grew up looking at X-rays and drawing on X-ray paper, it would be years before he discovered the shocking consequences of his father’s faith in science. A work of great bravery and humanity, Stitches is a gripping and ultimately redemptive story of a man’s struggle to understand the past and reclaim his voice. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Stage Dreams Melanie Gillman, 2019 A rollicking YA western adventure full of robbery and romance |
| fun home by alison bechdel: How I Made It to Eighteen Tracy White, 2010-06-08 How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's like to struggle with self-esteem, body image issues, drug addiction, and anxiety. How I Made It to Eighteen is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall, 1928 Tells the story of Stephen Gordon, a girl born at the turn of century, and her struggle for acceptance as a lesbian. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna Kellie Wells, 2017-08-15 Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose phantasmal stories, Booklist says, shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy. God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings of the world?s main stage. Here you will find a teacup-sized aerialist who tries to ingest the world's considerable suffering; a lonely god growing ever lonelier as the Afterlife swells with monkeys and other improbable occupants; a father fluent in the language of the Dead who has difficulty communicating with his living son; and Death himself, a moony adolescent with a tender heart and a lack of ambition. God-haunted and apocalyptic, comic and formally inventive, these stories give lyrical voice to the indomitability of the everyday underdog, and they will continue to resonate long after the last word has been read. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Cheese Monkeys Chip Kidd, 2008-12-26 'Show me something I've never seen before and will never be able to forget - if you can do that, you can do anything.' It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the trained eye and skilful hand. Our narrator at State University is determined to major in Art, and after several risible false starts, he accidentally ends up in a new class: 'Introduction to Graphic Design'. His teacher is the enigmatic Winter Sorbeck, equal parts genius, seducer and sadist. Sorbeck is a bitter yet fascinating man whose assignments hurl his charges through a gauntlet of humiliation and heartache, shame and triumph, ego-bashing and enlightenment. Along the way, friendships are made and undone, jealousies simmer, and the sexual tango weaves and dips. By the end of their 'Introduction to Graphic Design', Sorbeck's students will never see the world in the same way again. And, with Chip Kidd's insights into the secrets of graphic design, neither will you. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Within a Budding Grove Marcel Proust, 2022-11-13 Within a Budding Grove beautifully examines the complex adolescent relationships that the unnamed young narrator begins to witness all around him, including the first pangs of love and the ardent adolescent desires. But most importantly it explores the unbridgeable gap between childhood innocence and the disappointment of adulthood. The novel was scheduled to be published in 1914 but was delayed by the onset of World War I. When published, the novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919. My mother, when it was a question of our having M. de Norpois to dinner for the first time, having expressed her regret that Professor Cottard was away from home, and that she herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the old Ambassador . . . Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1913-1927). He is considered by English critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Blankets Craig Thompson, 2023-07-03 Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence. Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart. It's a universal story, and Thompson's vibrant brushstrokes and unique page designs make the familiar heartbreaking all over again. This groundbreaking graphic novel, winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, is an eloquent portrait of adolescent yearning; first love (and first heartache); faith in crisis; and the process of moving beyond all of that. Beautifully rendered in pen and ink, Thompson has created a love story that lasts. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: This One Summer Mariko Tamaki, 2014-05-06 A New York Times bestseller A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book An Eisner Award Winner Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems. One of the local teens - just a couple of years older than Rose and Windy - is caught up in something bad... Something life threatening. It's a summer of secrets, and sorrow, and growing up, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other. This One Summer is a tremendously exciting new teen graphic novel from two creators with true literary clout. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, the team behind Skim, have collaborated on this gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about a girl on the cusp of childhood - a story of renewal and revelation. This title has Common Core connections. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: A Little Gay History of Wales Daryl Leeworthy, 2019-09-15 A Little Gay History of Wales is the first book-length historical examination of LGBT activism in Wales laying out the campaign for equality in the twentieth century, the campaigns against Section 28, student and community activism, and recent developments such as Stonewall Cymru. It is an example of pioneering archival research, drawing on never-before studied records which charts the lives of ordinary LGBT men and women across Wales. It also features wide-ranging historical analysis stretching from the medieval period through to the modern-day, providing guides to changing language, places where LGBT people met and socialised, and their day-to-day experiences of coming out, threats of persecution, and acceptance. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Brave Smiles Five Lesbian Brothers (Theater troupe), 2010 In Brave smiles ...another Lesbian tragedy, master satirists the Five Lesbian Brothers turn their merciless eyes on the history of lesbians in theater, film, and literature. From their dismal yet erotically charged beginnings at the orphanage under the grip of a sadistic headmistress, our five heroines cross continents and a century to face their absurdly tragic ends. Along the way, they experience alcoholism, suicide, loneliness, pill popping, blacklisting, and a malignant brain tumor. Students of the lesbian art of misery will recognize gleeful skewerings of The Well of Loneliness, The Group, Maedchen in Uniform, and The Children's Hour in this rollicking, hilarious, and smart multicharacter classic--P. [4] of cover. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Well Lisa Kron, 2006 This play is not about my mother and me, begins Lisa Kron in Well. And yet, she has brought her mother, Ann, on stage with her. Needless to say, Ann disrupts the proceedings and soon the actors Lisa has hired to enact her multicharacter exploration of issues of health and illness discover that Ann is considerably more interesting than Lisa's play. In the end, Lisa's carefully constructed narrative collapses, leaving her to contemplate the notion that wellness lies in our ability to embrace the complexities and contradictions of life. Well is a surprising and funny play that ultimately acknowledges the heartbreaking challenge of true empathy, even toward those we love the most.--BOOK JACKET. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Step Aside, Pops Kate Beaton, 2015-09-01 Wonder Woman! Hunks! Great men and women of history! Step aside - Kate Beaton is coming for you. The author of the smash hit Hark! A Vagrant returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that showcase her irreverent love of history, pop culture and literature. Collected from her wildly popular website, readers will guffaw over 'Strong Female Characters', the wicked yet chivalrous Black Prince, 'Straw Feminists in the Closet' and a disgruntled Heathcliff. Delight in what the internet has long known - Beaton's humour is as sharp and dangerous as a velocipedestrienne, so watch out! |
| fun home by alison bechdel: I Love this Part Tillie Walden, 2018-03 Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school. They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop. In her follow up to the critically acclaimed The End of Summer, Tillie Walden tells the story of a small love that can make you feel like the biggest thing around, and how it's possible to find another person who understands you when you thought no one could. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown, 2015-07-02 Fifty years after its first publication, discover the classic coming-of-age novel that confronts prejudice and injustice with power and humanity. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RITA MAE BROWN Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay true to herself in 1950s America. In her dealings with boyfriends and girlfriends, in the rocky relationship with her mother and in her determination to pursue her career, she will fight for her right to happiness. Charming, proud and inspiring, Molly is the girl who refuses to be put in a box. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary Justin Green, 1972 Originally published: Berkeley, Calif.: Last-Gasp Eco-Funnies, 1972. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: The Indelible Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel, 1998 Go behind the pen and into the psyche of dyke to watch out for Alison Bechdel, cartoon chronicler extraordinaire, as the inner workings of lesbiana's most quick-witted, longest-running social commentator are revealed. Illustrations throughout. |
| fun home by alison bechdel: More Dykes to Watch Out for Alison Bechdel, 1988 Irksomely earnest Mo makes her debut in this, the second collection of work from Bechdel's signature comic strip. Mo's at loose ends--unemployed, unintentionally celibate and unable to come to grips with a regrettable haircut. What could the unflappable Harriet possibly see in her? Perhaps the answer lies in the mildly erotic account of their first night together ... |
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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home - JSTOR
Home: A Family Tragicomic , Alison Bechdel's breakout 2006 bestseller, is both a memoir of her closeted gay father who committed sui- cide and an autobiography detailing her own growing …
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Squarespace
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel reflects on her childhood in rural Pennsylvania and her fraught relationship with her late father Bruce. Only after coming out of the closet in college did Alison
Closing the Gap in Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' - JSTOR
Alison Bechdel's 2006 memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, makes a strong and explicit claim for the power of graphic narrative as witness. Employing the straightforward visual style …
READING LESSONS IN ALISON BECHDEL'S 'FUN HOME: A FAMILY …
Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Fam-ily Tragicomic, widely recognized for its literary sophistication, was declared one of the best books published in 2006 …
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This essay argues that Alison Bechdel’s Proustian allusions in Fun Home structure queer gender and sexuality performances that allow Alison to reclaim and reunite with her distant and …
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Midway through Fun Home, Alison Bechdel's riveting memoir of her family's secrets and love letter to her late, horrifically flawed father, she shows us the earliest entries in the diary she's kept …
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Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (Chapters 4 and 5) “Not only were we inverts, we were inversions of one another.’ As Alison continues to retrace her childhood memories, we find out more about …
Queer Trauma, Paternal Loss, and Graphic Healing in Alison …
structures of the everyday, and transmitted by Bruce Bechdel, to his daughter, Alison, I investigate the ways in which Fun Home also depicts the process of working through it via Bechdel’s …
Sex on the Body: Representation of the Queer Individual in Alison ...
Through Fun Home, Bechdel argues that sex and sexuality, represented on the physical body and shown through the visual and performing arts, allow for people of the queer community to be …
Drawing on Modernism in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home - JSTOR
When Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic came out in 2006, the striking literary quality of the narrative was noted from her first reviews. Bechdel’s memoir is …
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) is an autobiographical narrative that focuses on the author’s childhood, mental disorder, self-realization, and her father’s untimely …
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As an autobiographical account Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home from 2007 relies on the reader’s assumption that a memoir always is a true life story. To prove this to reader, the text employs …
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examining Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, this thesis shows that comics employ specific forms of visual-verbal rhetoric that can be useful to developing visual-verbal …
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' - JSTOR
historical trauma, Fun Home dares to claim historical significance and public space not only for a lesbian coming-out story but also for one that is tied to what some might see as shameful …
Du côté de Fun Home: Alison Bechdel Rewrites Marcel Proust
This essay reads Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) as a complex experiment in rewriting Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.1 I show that Fun 1 The debt of Fun Home to high modernist …
Queer Crossings and Inversions in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A …
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the graphic memoir published by Alison Bechdel in 2006, can be considered to be at the level of the acclaimed Maus (1993) by Art Spiegelman and Marjane …
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Alison Bechdel has explained that Fun Home was created out of a need to get to grips with what is described in chapter 3 as an "abrupt and wholesale revision of my history" (Fig. 1) through …
An Icarus/Daedalus Dynamic: The Construction of the
In Alison Bechdel’s highly acclaimed autographic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), the reader witnesses the author’s attempt to make sense of her father’s death by relating it to …
Lesbian Desire in Fun Home - JSTOR
Bechdel contrasts young Alison’s admiration and fascination with her father’s disdain, as he glares at the butch woman through narrowed, suspi- cious eyes.
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alison! what? send tammi home. you work to do. the gilt cornices, the fireplace, the crysta- cfwoeliers, the shelves of calf-bound books—these were not so much bought as produced …
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home - JSTOR
Home: A Family Tragicomic , Alison Bechdel's breakout 2006 bestseller, is both a memoir of her closeted gay father who committed sui- cide and an autobiography detailing her own growing …
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Squarespace
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel reflects on her childhood in rural Pennsylvania and her fraught relationship with her late father Bruce. Only after coming out of the closet in college did Alison
Closing the Gap in Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' - JSTOR
Alison Bechdel's 2006 memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, makes a strong and explicit claim for the power of graphic narrative as witness. Employing the straightforward visual style …
READING LESSONS IN ALISON BECHDEL'S 'FUN HOME: A …
Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Fam-ily Tragicomic, widely recognized for its literary sophistication, was declared one of the best books published in 2006 …
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This essay argues that Alison Bechdel’s Proustian allusions in Fun Home structure queer gender and sexuality performances that allow Alison to reclaim and reunite with her distant and …
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Midway through Fun Home, Alison Bechdel's riveting memoir of her family's secrets and love letter to her late, horrifically flawed father, she shows us the earliest entries in the diary she's …
Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (Chapters 4 and 5) - IB Language and ...
Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (Chapters 4 and 5) “Not only were we inverts, we were inversions of one another.’ As Alison continues to retrace her childhood memories, we find out more about …
Queer Trauma, Paternal Loss, and Graphic Healing in Alison Bechdel’s
structures of the everyday, and transmitted by Bruce Bechdel, to his daughter, Alison, I investigate the ways in which Fun Home also depicts the process of working through it via Bechdel’s …
Sex on the Body: Representation of the Queer Individual in Alison ...
Through Fun Home, Bechdel argues that sex and sexuality, represented on the physical body and shown through the visual and performing arts, allow for people of the queer community to be …
Drawing on Modernism in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home - JSTOR
When Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic came out in 2006, the striking literary quality of the narrative was noted from her first reviews. Bechdel’s memoir is …
LEARNING FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: A PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF FUN HOME …
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) is an autobiographical narrative that focuses on the author’s childhood, mental disorder, self-realization, and her father’s untimely …
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As an autobiographical account Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home from 2007 relies on the reader’s assumption that a memoir always is a true life story. To prove this to reader, the text employs …
THESIS PERFORMATIVITY IN COMICS: REPRESENTATIONS OF …
examining Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, this thesis shows that comics employ specific forms of visual-verbal rhetoric that can be useful to developing visual-verbal …
Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home' - JSTOR
historical trauma, Fun Home dares to claim historical significance and public space not only for a lesbian coming-out story but also for one that is tied to what some might see as shameful …
Du côté de Fun Home: Alison Bechdel Rewrites Marcel Proust
This essay reads Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) as a complex experiment in rewriting Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.1 I show that Fun 1 The debt of Fun Home to high modernist …
Queer Crossings and Inversions in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A …
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the graphic memoir published by Alison Bechdel in 2006, can be considered to be at the level of the acclaimed Maus (1993) by Art Spiegelman and Marjane …
LOSS, REVISION, TRANSLATION - JSTOR
Alison Bechdel has explained that Fun Home was created out of a need to get to grips with what is described in chapter 3 as an "abrupt and wholesale revision of my history" (Fig. 1) through …
An Icarus/Daedalus Dynamic: The Construction of the
In Alison Bechdel’s highly acclaimed autographic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), the reader witnesses the author’s attempt to make sense of her father’s death by relating it to …
Lesbian Desire in Fun Home - JSTOR
Bechdel contrasts young Alison’s admiration and fascination with her father’s disdain, as he glares at the butch woman through narrowed, suspi- cious eyes.
