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UNINA9910480581903321 |
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Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability / / edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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ISBN |
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0-271-08630-09780271086323 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Graphic novels - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Mechanical Boys" : Omega the Unknown on the Spectrum / Jose 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways |
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of being in the world"--Provided by publisher. |
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