Fun home. A family tragicomic. Homer, Joyce and Bechdel
Classical Reception and Comic Hybridisation. The Heroine Explores her Sexual Identity
This essay aims at analyzing the main classical sources of the graphic novel Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, published in 2006, and their function in the construction of gender identity.
Article outline
- 1.
Fun home: A Family Tragicomic: Some preliminary notes
- 2.Plot
- 3.Comics and their classical reception
- 4.Classical world in Fun Home
- 4.1The myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
- 4.2The Odyssey.
- 4.3
Ulysses.
- 5.Conclusions
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Notes
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References
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