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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820263803321

Autore

Poll Ryan <1975->

Titolo

Aquaman and the war against oceans : comics activism and allegory in the Anthropocene / / Ryan Poll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781496233707

9781496233691

1-4962-3370-0

9781496225856

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages)

Collana

Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies

Classificazione

LIT017000NAT025000

Disciplina

741.5973

Soggetti

Sea in literature

Literary criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Deep in the Trenches -- 2. Waves of Feminism -- 3. The Apocalyptic Ocean -- 4. Allegories of White Supremacy -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

""Aquaman and the War against Oceans" evaluates Geoff Johns's The New 52 "Aquaman" comic and details the role of Aquaman in charting the environmental violence caused by global capitalism and in developing a progressive ecological imagination through the use of allegory"--