| Description |
1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Sexual Cultures |
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Sexual cultures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Fantastic Bullets -- I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act -- Can the Black Superhero Be? -- Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire -- Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical |
| Summary |
"Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy-especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish-is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt "fantasy-acts" against antiblackness, a transgressive way of "reading" beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, the author argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott's personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade, and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
African American superheroes.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Fantasy -- Social aspects
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Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.
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Fantasy literature.
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Queer theory.
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fantasies (literary works)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African-American.
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African American superheroes
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.
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Fantasy literature
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Fantasy -- Social aspects
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Queer theory
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Theories.
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Queer theory.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Fantasy comics.
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LGBTQ+ studies.
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LGBTQ+ literature.
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Festschriften.
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Critiques de bandes dessinees et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479811694 |
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1479811696 |
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