Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability

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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 of being i...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Smith, Scott Thompson (Editor), Alaniz, José (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019
Series:Graphic medicine.
Subjects:
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities in art.
Superheroes in literature.
Sociological Factors.
Personal Autonomy.
Graphic Novels as Topic.
Disabled Persons.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"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 of being in the world"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780271086309
0271086300
9780271086323
0271086327
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (EbscoHost, viewed April 8, 2020).

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