The new mutants : superheroes and the radical imagination of American comics /
In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women's and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies, including The Justice...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Postmillennial pop.
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| Summary: | In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women's and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies, including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men and The New Mutants, alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 316 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479814336 (cl : alk. paper) 1479814334 (cl : alk. paper) 9781479823086 (pb : alk. paper) 1479823082 (pb : alk. paper) |