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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: sovereignty and superheroes; Notes; 1 Legitimacy and the Good; The Platonic form of the superhero; The Good and social change; A never-ending struggle; Notes; 2 Defending freedom; The nationalist superhero; Captain America's promise; Captain America's patriotism; National recuperation; Notes; 3 Law and violence; Law and the mark of community; The Law's violent shadow; The beast and the sovereign; Bruce Wayne's pathos; Notes; 4 Friend and enemy; Maintaining the distinction |
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Deconstructing the distinction: autoimmunityDeconstructing the distinction: poison and cure; Reinstating the distinction; Notes; 5 Emergency and bare life; State of emergency/state of exception; The superhero's anomie; Anomie and the American monomyth; Anomie and the sovereign ban; Notes; 6 Symbolic authority and kinship; Another law; Totemism; Couplings and collectives; Notes; 7 Sovereignty at the limit; The contradiction of sovereignty; Limits and limitlessness; Meaningful worlds; The sovereign imagination; Notes; Postscript; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This title marks a major contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists, the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy, and authority |
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Comics |
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Emergency |
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Law |
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Power |
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Sovereignty |
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Superheroes |
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Violence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 23, 2015) |
| Subject |
Sovereignty.
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Superheroes.
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sovereignty.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- General.
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Sovereignty
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Superheroes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784997007 |
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1784997005 |
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