Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: Queer Futurity and the Metamodernist Memoir

By examining Alison Bechdel's Fun Home through the lens of metamodernism and queer theory, this essay argues that the graphic memoir reanimates the socioethical imperatives of queer modernity. Bechdel uses modernist literature to examine her relationship with her father and represent her sexual...

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Published in:	Modern fiction studies 2019-10, Vol.65 (3), p.511-537
Main Author:	Fox, Meghan C.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Aesthetics Allusion American literature Archives & records Autobiographies Bechdel, Alison (1960- ) Biographies British & Irish literature Chute, Hillary Contemporary literature Death & dying English literature Epic literature Erotica Faulkner, William (1897-1962) French literature Genre Heroism & heroes Interpersonal relations Intersectionality Intertextuality Iranian literature Joyce, James (1882-1941) Literary canon Literary characters Literary criticism Literary devices Literary influences Literature Modern literature Modernism Modernity Narrative structure Narrative techniques Narratives Palimpsests Plot (Narrative) Proust, Marcel (1871-1922) Publishing Publishing industry Rhetorical figures Satrapi, Marjane (1969- ) Short stories Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) Subjectivity Time Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) Traditions Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) Writers
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