Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability / edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz.
- Date:
- [2019]
- Books
About this work
Description
"Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world"--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Physical description
viii, 234 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Contributors
Contents
"Mechanical Boys" : Omega the unknown on the spectrum / José Alaniz -- Sane superheroes : Mental distress in the gutters of Moon Knight / Charlie Christie -- Echo : The silence between the notes / Sarah Bowden -- Mistress of cyberspace : Oracle, disability, and the cyborg / Marit Hanson -- More than a retcon replacement : disability, blackness, and sexuality in the origin of operator / Lauren O'Connor -- "Okay . . . this looks bad" : disability, masculinity, and ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Daniel Pinti -- Deaf Issue : Hawkeye #19 and deaf accessibility in the comics medium / Naja Later -- That Hawkguy : Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Sarah Gibbons -- Dialectical identity : Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero / Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Daniel J. O'Rourke -- "Of Course, I Am a Hero" : Disability as posthuman ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo / Lauranne Poharec -- Unraveling the Supercrip : superheroes as subversion : a personal essay in comic form / Andrew Godfrey-Meers -- Fearsome possibilities : an afterword / Charles Hatfield.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineNH /SMIOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780271084756
- 0271084758