| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Graphic Medicine |
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Graphic medicine.
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| Contents |
"Mechanical Boys": Omega the Unknown on the Spectrum / José Alaniz -- Sane Superheroes: Mental Distress in the Gutters of Moon Knight / Charlie Christie -- Echo: The Silence Between the Notes / Sarah Bowden -- Mistress of Cyberspace: Oracle, Disability, and the Cyborg / Marit Hanson -- More than a Retcon Replacement: Disability, Blackness, and Sexuality in the Origin of Operator / Lauren O'Connor -- "Okay . . . This Looks Bad": Disability, Masculinity, and Ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Daniel Pinti -- The deaf Issue: Hawkeye #19 and Deaf Accessibility in the Comics Medium / Naja Later -- That Hawkguy: Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye / Sarah Gibbons -- Dialectical Identity: Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero / Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Daniel J. O'Rourke -- "Of Course, I Am a Hero": Disability as Posthuman Ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo / Lauranne Poharec -- Unraveling the Supercrip: Superheroes as Subversion, a Personal Essay in Comic Form / Andrew Godfrey-Meers -- Fearsome Possibilities: An Afterword / Charles Hatfield |
| Summary |
"Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters--such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion--as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (EbscoHost, viewed April 8, 2020) |
| Subject |
Graphic novels -- History and criticism
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Autonomy (Psychology) in comics
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People with disabilities in comics.
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Superheroes in comics.
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People with disabilities.
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
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People with disabilities in art.
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Superheroes in literature.
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Disabled Persons
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Sociological Factors
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Personal Autonomy
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Graphic Novels as Topic
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Superheroes.
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People with disabilities
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Graphic novels
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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People with disabilities in art
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People with disabilities in literature
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Superheroes in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Scott Thompson, editor.
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Alaniz, José, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780271086309 |
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0271086300 |
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9780271086323 |
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0271086327 |
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