In:The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media
Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 23] 2020
► pp. 143–158
Fun home. A family tragicomic. Homer, Joyce and Bechdel
Classical Reception and Comic Hybridisation. The Heroine Explores her Sexual Identity
Published online: 10 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.23.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.23.c7
Abstract
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.
Keywords: Comic, Classical Reception, Hybridisation, Sexual 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.
- 4.3Ulysses.
- 5.Conclusions
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