Uncanny bodies : superhero comics and disability /

"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.
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505 0 |a "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. 
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