Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics - Couverture souple

Aldama, Frederick Luis; Berlatsky, Noah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814255639 ISBN 13 : 9780814255636

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020

In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the histories and stakes of whiteness studies, superhero comics, and superhero studies for academics, fans, and media-makers alike. The volume illustrates how the American comic book superhero is fundamentally a figure of white power and white supremacy and ultimately calls for diversity in superhero comics as well as a democratized media culture.
Contributors not only examine superhero narratives but also delve into the production, distribution, audience, and reception of those narratives, highlighting the imbrication of forces that have helped to create, normalize, question, and sometimes even subvert American beliefs about whiteness and race. Unstable Masks considers the co-constitutive nature of identity, representation, narrative, production and consumption, and historical and cultural contexts in forging the stereotypes that decide who gets to be a superhero and who gets to be American on the four-color pages of comic books.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sean Guynes is a PhD candidate in twentieth-century American Literature and Culture at Michigan State University. Martin Lund is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malmö University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814255639
• ISBN 13: 9780814255636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Guynes Sean, Lund Martin
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