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Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Editat de Sean Guynes, Martin Lund Cuvânt înainte de Frederick Luis Aldama Cuvânt după de Noah Berlatsky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 ian 2020
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.  
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814214183
ISBN-10: 0814214185
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 19 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative


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“Triumphant, provocative, defiant, discipline defining, and paradigm-shifting.… A timely and necessary intervention. Summing up: Essential.” —S. B. Skelton, CHOICE Reviews
“In this powerful and timely collection of scholarship, contributors from a variety of backgrounds explore the production, audience, and reception of superhero comic books as a means to engage with questions of what it means to be American and to be heroic … [An] ending note of hope is precisely why Unstable Masks is an important and powerful book: wide-ranging in terms of texts and time periods, but eloquently connected to the present cultural moment in America (and beyond), and profoundly significant for thinking through how we might reconceptualize the heroes we construct for our future.” —Kristin Noone, SFRA Review
“This is a fascinating collection; taken together, this edited volume is an impressive consideration of the superhero genre, those who created these characters, and the audiences who consume and interact with these ideas.” —Lily Goren, New Books Network
“The scholars in this book powerfully state that equality is not about changing ‘comic book’ colors but dismantling a racial ideology that has penetrated the core of American nationalism, industry, and culture.” —Enrique García author of The Hernandez Brothers: Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics
Unstable Masks should be read cover to cover. In addition to bringing together some extremely strong essays on comic book superheroes, the collection works well to depict the dangers inherent within our predominantly white cultural constructions of heroism.” —Terrence Wandtke author of The Dark Night Returns: The Resurgence of Crime Comics

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Contents List of Illustrations Foreword        Unmasking Whiteness: Re-Spacing the Speculative in Superhero Comics             Frederick Luis Aldama Acknowledgments Introduction    Not to Interpret, but to Abolish: Whiteness Studies and American Superhero Comics             Sean Guynes and Martin Lund Part I: Outlining Superheroic Whiteness Chapter 1        Marked for Failure: Whiteness, Innocence, and Power in Defining Captain America             Osvaldo Oyola Chapter 2        The Whiteness of the Whale and the Darkness of the Dinosaur: The Africanist Presence in Superhero Comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl             Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins Chapter 3        “The Original Enchantment”: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Representational Logics in The New Mutants             Jeremy M. Carnes Chapter 4        Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Racial Politics of Cloak and Dagger             Olivia Hicks Chapter 5        Worlds Collide: Whiteness, Integration, and Diversity in the DC/Milestone Crossover             Shamika Ann Mitchell Chapter 6        Whiteness and Superheroes in the Comix/Codices of Enrique Chagoya             José Alaniz Part II: Reaching toward Whiteness Chapter 7        Seeing White: Normalization and Domesticity in Vision’s Cyborg Identity             Esther De Dauw Chapter 8        “Beware the Fanatic!”: Jewishness, Whiteness, and Civil Rights in X-Men (1963–1970)             Martin Lund Chapter 9        Mutation, Racialization, Decimation: The X-Men as White Men             Neil Shyminsky Chapter 10      White Plasticity and Black Possibility in Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier             Sean Guynes Part III: Whiteness by a Different Color Chapter 11      White or Indian? Whiteness and Becoming the White Indian Comics Superhero             Yvonne Chireau Chapter 12      “A True Son of K’un-Lun”: The Awkward Racial Politics of White Martial Arts Superheroes in the 1970s             Matthew Pustz Chapter 13      The Whitest There Is at What I Do: Japanese Identity and the Unmarked Hero in Wolverine (1982)             Eric Sobel Chapter 14      The Dark Knight: Whiteness, Appropriation, Colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era             Jeffrey A. Brown Afterword       Empowerment for Some, or Tentacle Sex for All             Noah Berlatsky List of Contributors Index

Descriere

Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the unspoken whiteness that overwhelms American superhero narratives.