All new, all different? : a history of race and the American superhero /

Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts ei...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Austin, Allan W. (Author), Hamilton, Patrick Lawrence (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019
Edition:First edition.
Series:World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Heroes > Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Superheroes in literature.
Race dans la littérature.
Superhéros dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels
Comic books, strips, etc.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Comics (Graphic works)
Bandes dessinées.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "World's finest?" : the wartime superhero and race, 1941-1945
  • 2. Struggling for social relevance : DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945-1965
  • 3. "We're all brothers!" : the ideal of liberal brotherhood in the 1960s & 1970s
  • 4. Guess who's coming to save you? : the rise of the ethnic superhero in the 1960s & 1970s
  • 5. "Something for everyone:" the super team in the age of multiculturalism, 1975-1996
  • 6. Replacement heroes and the quest for inclusion, 1985-2011
  • 7. Something old, something new: heroes reborn and reimagined, 1990-2015

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