Uncanny Bodies : : Superhero Comics and Disability /

Uncanny Bodies : : Superhero Comics and Disability / / ed. by José Alaniz, Scott T. Smith.

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Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal ho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Alaniz, José,
Bowden, Sarah,
Christie, Charlie,
Gibbons, Sarah,
Godfrey-Meers, Andrew,
Hanson, Marit,
Hatfield, Charles,
Later, Naja,
O'Connor, Lauren,
O'Rourke, Daniel J.,
Pinti, Daniel,
Poharec, Lauranne,
Randall-Griffiths, Deleasa,
Smith, Scott T.,
HerausgeberIn:
Alaniz, José,
Smith, Scott T.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Graphic Medicine ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 36 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Uncanny Bodies
  • 1 "Mechanical Boys" Omega the Unknown on the Spectrum
  • 2. Sane Superheroes Mental Distress in the Gutters of Moon Knight
  • 3. Echo. The Silence Between the Notes
  • 4 Mistress of Cyberspace. Oracle, Disability, and the Cyborg
  • 5 More than a Retcon Replacement. Disability, Blackness, and Sexuality in the Origin of Operator
  • 6. "Okay . . . This Looks Bad" Disability, Masculinity, and Ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye
  • 7. The deaf Issue Hawkeye #19 and Deaf Accessibility in the Comics Medium
  • 8. That Hawkguy Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye
  • 9. Dialectical Identity Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero
  • 10. "Of Course, I Am a Hero" Disability as Posthuman Ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo
  • 11 Unraveling the Supercrip: Superheroes as Subversion, a Personal Essay in Comic Form
  • Fearsome Possibilities: An Afterword
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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