LEADER 04448oam 22007334a 450 001 9910797998003321 005 20230613165713.0 010 $a1-4798-4002-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479840021 035 $a(CKB)3710000000530117 035 $a(EBL)4004155 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001581732 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16259951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001581732 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12686531 035 $a(PQKB)10309983 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001533337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4004155 035 $a(DE-B1597)547038 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479840021 035 $a(OCoLC)930602655 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86978 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000530117 100 $a20151130h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe New Mutants$eSuperheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics /$fRamzi Fawaz 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 225 0 $aPostmillennial pop 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4798-1433-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: superhumans in America --$tThe family of Superman : the superhero team and the promise of universal citizenship --$t"Flame on!" Nuclear families, unstable molecules, and the queer history of the Fantastic Four --$tComic book cosmopolitics : the Fantastic Four's counterpublic as a world-making project --$t"Where no X-Man has gone before!" Mutant superheroes and the cultural politics of the comic book space opera --$tHeroes "that give a damn!" Urban folktales and the triumph of the working-class hero --$tConsumed by hellfire : demonic possession and the limits of the superhuman in the 1980s --$tLost in the badlands : radical imagination and the enchantments of mutant solidarity in The new mutants --$tEpilogue: Marvelous corpse. 330 $a"In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as 'new mutants, ' social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and 'freaks' soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America's most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women's and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies -- including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants -- alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States."--Publisher's description. 410 0$aPostmillennial Pop 606 $aSuperheld$2gnd 606 $aComic$2gnd 606 $aSuperheroes in literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01904835 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00869145 606 $aART$xTechniques$xDrawing$2bisacsh 606 $aSuperheroes in literature 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aSuperheld 615 7$aComic 615 7$aSuperheroes in literature. 615 7$aComic books, strips, etc. 615 7$aART$xTechniques$xDrawing. 615 0$aSuperheroes in literature. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a741.5/973 700 $aFawaz$b Ramzi$01482644 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797998003321 996 $aThe New Mutants$93700420 997 $aUNINA