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The New Mutants : Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics /

"In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as 'new mutants, ' social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from ic...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fawaz, Ramzi (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : New York University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: superhumans in America
  • The family of Superman : the superhero team and the promise of universal citizenship
  • "Flame on!" Nuclear families, unstable molecules, and the queer history of the Fantastic Four
  • Comic book cosmopolitics : the Fantastic Four's counterpublic as a world-making project
  • "Where no X-Man has gone before!" Mutant superheroes and the cultural politics of the comic book space opera
  • Heroes "that give a damn!" Urban folktales and the triumph of the working-class hero
  • Consumed by hellfire : demonic possession and the limits of the superhuman in the 1980s
  • Lost in the badlands : radical imagination and the enchantments of mutant solidarity in The new mutants
  • Epilogue: Marvelous corpse.