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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...

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Autores principales: Benson, Josef, 1974- (Autor), Singsen, Doug (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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 attempts were often undermined by a lack of awareness of their own whiteness and the ideological baggage that goes along with it. Even the most celebrated figures of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions or explanations. Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics. Josef Benson and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been defined, transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror, crime, funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary fiction, and historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking book assesses industry giants, highlights some of the most important episodes in American comic book history, and demonstrates how they relate to one another and form a larger pattern, in unexpected and surprising ways"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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