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Fun Home: Revelation Of Reality And Relationships Through Grief, Mary Margaret Hughes
Fun Home: Revelation Of Reality And Relationships Through Grief, Mary Margaret Hughes
Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)
The musical Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori follows Alison Bechdel as a child, a young adult, and a grown adult as she looks back on her memories of her deceased father and their relationship as two queer individuals. Alison’s father carries the emotional gravity of the text, driving the scenes forward through the theme of control and the damage it does. Alison and her father both seek to control much of their lives, including their sexualities and subsequent realities about their sexualities. Made clear through a critical analysis of the musical’s plot, character, themes, and language, Fun …
With Kindest Regards To You And Miss Sparks, Claire E. Kelly
With Kindest Regards To You And Miss Sparks, Claire E. Kelly
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
This work explores the life of a woman, Katherine Josephine Sparks, who lived in Nashville from 1910 to 1993. Vignettes of her life are revealed through the Katherine Sparks Collection at the Nashville Archives, in which over 18,000 items including letters, photographs, memorabilia, and legal documents house parts of her family’s story. Katherine lived an unassuming life, she never married, and she had no children. There is very little documentation of her life left other than what is held in this archival collection. Without the archive, this record would be lost—a small part of history that would go undiscovered and …