The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel's Moral Universe - Couverture souple

Wiebe, Reginald; Woodman, Dorothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1772127116 ISBN 13 : 9781772127119

Editeur : University of Alberta Press, 2023

Synopsis

In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease in four case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, troubles the binaries of good and evil because it is the ultimate nemesis within a genre replete with magic, mutants, and multiverses. They draw from gender theory, disability studies, and cultural theory to demonstrate how cancer in comics enables an examination of power and responsibility, key terms in Marvel’s superhero universe. As the only full-length study on cancer in the Marvel universe, The Cancer Plot is an appealing and original work that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities, particularly those working in the health humanities, cultural theory, and literature, as well as avid comics readers.|The Cancer Plot examines the moral, symbolic, and critical role of cancer in Marvel comics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Reginald Wiebe is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University of Edmonton and gratefully lives on Treaty 6 territory. Dorothy Woodman is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and gratefully lives on Treaty 6 territory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Alberta Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1772127116
• ISBN 13: 9781772127119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible