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FYWB 1135: Contested Truths (Breyer)

Prof. Ben Breyer, Fall 2024

Fun Home bibliography

These are just suggestions for getting started gathering scholarship on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.

Cvetkovich, Ann. “Drawing the Archive in Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home.’” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1/2, 2008, pp. 111–28.

Freedman, Ariela. “Drawing on Modernism in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 32, no. 4, 2009, pp. 125–40.

Kelp-Stebbins, Katherine. “Fun Home and Are You My Mother? As Autotopography: Queer Orientations and the Politics of Location.” The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, edited by Janine Utell, University Press of Mississippi, 2019, pp.181–196.

Hogan, Kate. “Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” The Divided States: Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Laura J. Beard and Ricia Anne Chansky, University of Wisconsin Press, 2023, pp. 167–93.

Kelley, Michael J. “Mirrored Discourse in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 42–57.

MacRae, Ian. “Queering Epistemology and the Odyssey of Identity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Graphic Novels as Philosophy, edited by Jeff McLaughlin, University Press of Mississippi, 2017, pp. 130-149.

Urcaregui, Maite. “‘A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind’: Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, Routledge, 2020, pp. 365-374.

Van Dyne, Susan R. “Inside The Archives of Fun Home.” The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, edited by Janine Utell, University Press of Mississippi, 2019, pp. 197-213. 

Warhol, Robyn, and Robyn Warhol-Down. “The Space Between: A Narrative Approach to Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home.’” College Literature, vol. 38, no. 3, 2011, pp. 1–20.

Watson, Julia. “Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home.’” Biography, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 27–58.