Not in Library. Bechdel charts her relationship with her late father, Bruce, who was an English teacher and the director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the ‘Fun Home’.
Death and dying – not discussed. Clearly we were a very nosey group!Anyway, take what you will from my anecdote – it was the only introduction I could come up with for Bechdel charts her relationship with her late father, Bruce, who was an English teacher and the director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the ‘Fun Home’. I think we have a natural curiosity about the process of death. I wonder, but I also know logically that despite all the time I spend discussing grief at work, and sitting with people who are experiencing such immense pain, I’m quite sure that when grief visits me next, my ‘tools’ will desert me. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel’s sweetly gothic drawings. Fun home is what she and her brothers called the family-owned funeral home her dad ran.
Never fails to make me weep.Isn’t it fascinating how the most serious subjects can ben dealt with very effectively in graphic novel form. Otherwise what's the point?The memoir focuses on Bechdel's family, and is centered on her relationship with her father, Bruce. Tolmie, Jane (2009). 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. I couldn’t help thinking of Six Feet Under when reading this, and I’m sure you’ve already read Kate Mayfield’s The Undertaker’s Daughter.I LOVED Six Feet Under (I really should watch it again….). The main characters of this sequential art, graphic novels story are , . Poster of WGS/IDS 180 Special topics in women, gender, and sexuality studies: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel class being offered in Fall 2016. Una familia tragicómica (Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic en inglés) es una historieta creada por Alison Bechdel en el año 2006. Download for print-disabled 2. Download for print-disabled 3. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay.
It does. I asked her a million questions about it. Alison ponders whether her father's death was an accident or suicide, and finds it more likely that he killed himself purposefully.The chapter headings, too, are all literary allusions.In addition to the literary allusions which are explicitly acknowledged in the text, Bechdel incorporates visual allusions to television programs and other items of Heike Bauer, a professor at the University of London, categorizes Valerie Rohy, an English professor at the University of Vermont, questions the authenticity of Alison's archives in the book.Judith Kegan Gardiner, a professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, views In 2013, Palmetto Family, a conservative South Carolina group affiliated with In 2015, the book was assigned as summer reading for the incoming class of 2019 at This article is about the book. I have another on the shelf that’s next – Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart.Hello Kate. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This was one of my first graphic novels, and still one of my favourites.I’ve only read one other (Heimat by Nora Krug) so I may have set myself a very high benchmark! In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Fun home is what she and her brothers called the family-owned funeral home her dad ran.
That's the same case for the other two biographical stories. Fun Home is Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir of her life growing up. Poster of WGS/IDS 180 Special topics in women, gender, and sexuality studies: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel class being offered in Fall 2016. This one sounds intriguing too – I have ordered a copy.And equally very complex stories – there are a lot of threads to this and it would have been easier to focus on just one, but somehow she manages to get it all in. Bruce had a fastidious interest in home restoration and antiques; loved the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald; and was described by Bechdel as distant.Parallel to reflecting on her relationship with her father, Bechdel also tells of her coming out as a lesbian – weeks after she told her parents, her father died.And soon after that, Bechdel discovered that her father was also gay (her mother informed her) –So yeah, this is an extremely complex story, and you might wonder whether a comic book format does it justice. It's a really well told story, as Bechdel is a master storyteller. It's very important for me that people be able to read the images in the same kind of gradually unfolding way as they're reading the text. Description. Fun home: a family tragicomic 2006, Houghton Mifflin in English aaaa. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family. "In addition to sexual orientation, the memoir touches on the theme of gender identity. (And by adult, I mean for grown-ups, NOT porn.) Other Editions of This Title: I’m definitely intrigued by this graphic novel.