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Alison Bechdel: Drawing the Punctum

Alison Bechdel: Drawing the Punctum

Lecture no. 21

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Oct 17, 2023
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Alison Bechdel’s book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) is a graphic memoir, That is to say, it is a memoir in comic strip form. The genre, which includes Maus by Art Spiegelman (1991) and Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi, is now commonly taught on English Literature courses.1

Cover of Fun Home, UK paperback

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