| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Graphic Medicine
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Graphic medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Graphic novels -- History and criticism.
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Graphic novels. |
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature. |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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People with disabilities in art.
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People with disabilities in art. |
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Superheroes in literature.
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Superheroes in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Scott Thompson, editor.
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Alaniz, José http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q101011570, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Uncanny bodies. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019] 9780271084749 9780271084756 (DLC) 2019027765 (OCoLC)1096220670 |
| ISBN |
9780271086309 (electronic book) |
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0271086300 (electronic book) |
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9780271086323 (electronic book) |
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0271086327 (electronic book) |
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9780271084749 (hardcover) |
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027108474X (hardcover) |
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9780271084756 (paperback) |
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0271084758 (paperback) |
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