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Bandits, misfits, and superheroes : whiteness and its borderlands in American comics and graphic novels /
"American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in general are products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its presence. Even when comics creators and publishers sought to advance an antiracist agenda, their a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Chapter one: Race and racism in the birth of the superhero
- Chapter two: The Southern outlaw and the white Indian in Western comics
- Chapter three: Colonialism and primitivism in US Comics
- Chapter four: Civil rights and the limits of liberalism
- Chapter five: Robert Crumb's cathartic racism
- Chapter six: Jewish exceptionalism and assimilation in the 1970s and 1980s
- Chapter seven: Racial borderlands in alternative comics
- Chapter eight: The deconstruction of the white superhero in Watchmen
- Chapter nine: Frank Miller's hyper masculine whiteness and the defense of Western culture
- Chapter ten: Reskinning narratives: taking off the mask
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.