The New Mutants : : Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics / / Ramzi Fawaz.
How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2012 CLAGS Fello...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 15 black and white illustrations, 28 Illustrations, color |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Superhumans in America
- 1. The Family of Superman: The Superhero Team and the Promise of Universal Citizenship
- 2. “Flame On!” Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four
- 3. Comic Book Cosmopolitics: The Fantastic Four’s Counterpublic as a World-Making Project
- 4. “Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of the Comic Book Space Opera
- 5. Heroes “That Give a Damn!” Urban Folktales and the Triumph of the Working-Class Hero
- 6. Consumed by Hellfire: Demonic Possession and the Limits of the Superhuman in the 1980s
- 7. Lost in the Badlands: Radical Imagination and the Enchantments of Mutant Solidarity in The New Mutants
- Epilogue: Marvelous Corpse
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author