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Performativity in comics: representations of gender and sexuality in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

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dc.contributor.authorVincent, Aimee E., author
dc.contributor.authorLangstraat, Lisa, advisor
dc.contributor.authorReid, Louann, committee member
dc.contributor.authorDickinson, Greg, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:35:33Z
dc.date.available2012-09-01T08:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the role of comics in rhetoric and composition studies. By examining Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, this thesis shows that comics employ specific forms of visual-verbal rhetoric that can be useful to developing visual-verbal literacies in rhetoric and composition instruction. This thesis also suggests that gender and sexuality are underexplored areas in comics studies and examines representations of gender and sexuality through three main lenses: Foucauldian feminism through theorists such as Sandra Bartky, performativity through Judith Butler's framework, and queer theory through theorists such as Ann Cvetkovich. In the conclusion, this thesis proposes that one use for comics, specifically Fun Home, in rhetoric and composition classrooms is as a way to introduce queer theory and queer pedagogy into a first-year composition class.
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dc.identifierVincent_colostate_0053N_10575.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/48209
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectgender studies
dc.subjectcomics studies
dc.subjectpedagogy
dc.subjectqueer studies
dc.subjectrhetoric and composition
dc.subjectwriting
dc.titlePerformativity in comics: representations of gender and sexuality in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
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thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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