{"product_id":"approaches-to-teaching-bechdels-fun-judith-kegan-gardiner-9781603293594","title":"Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home","description":"Alison Bechdel's \u003ci\u003eFun Home: A Family Tragicomic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers strategies for teaching \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e along with Bechdel's letters and drafts; her long-running comic strip, \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e; the Broadway musical adaptation of the book; and other stories of LGBTQ lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Kegan Gardiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1603293590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603293594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Association of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Judith Kegan Gardiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938641379583,"sku":"9781603293594","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_88571e9d-ff3d-4357-8086-be0f7cab7e1b.jpg?v=1681436887","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/approaches-to-teaching-bechdels-fun-judith-kegan-gardiner-9781603293594","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}