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New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative Ser.: Unstable Masks : Whiteness and American Superhero Comics by Martin Lund (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Language: English. Number of Pages: 300. Weight: 0.9 lbs. Publication Date: 2020-01-07. Publisher: Ohio State University Press.

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PublisherOhio State University Press

ISBN-100814255639

ISBN-139780814255636

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Number of Pages300 Pages

Publication NameUnstable Masks : Whiteness and American Superhero Comics

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

SubjectAmerican / African American, American / General, American / Hispanic American, Comics & Graphic Novels

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorMartin Lund

SeriesNew Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Dewey Edition23

Afterword byBerlatsky, Noah

Dewey Decimal741.5/352

Table Of ContentContents List of Illustrations Foreword Unmasking Whiteness: Re-Spacing the Speculative in Superhero Comics Frederick Luis Aldama Acknowledgments Introduction Not to Interpret, but to Abolish: Whiteness Studies and American Superhero Comics Sean Guynes and Martin Lund Part I: Outlining Superheroic Whiteness Chapter 1 Marked for Failure: Whiteness, Innocence, and Power in Defining Captain America Osvaldo Oyola Chapter 2 The Whiteness of the Whale and the Darkness of the Dinosaur: The Africanist Presence in Superhero Comics from Black Lightning to Moon Girl Eric Berlatsky and Sika Dagbovie-Mullins Chapter 3 "The Original Enchantment": Whiteness, Indigeneity, and Representational Logics in The New Mutants Jeremy M. Carnes Chapter 4 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Racial Politics of Cloak and Dagger Olivia Hicks Chapter 5 Worlds Collide: Whiteness, Integration, and Diversity in the DC/Milestone Crossover Shamika Ann Mitchell Chapter 6 Whiteness and Superheroes in the Comix/Codices of Enrique Chagoya José Alaniz Part II: Reaching toward Whiteness Chapter 7 Seeing White: Normalization and Domesticity in Vision''s Cyborg Identity Esther De Dauw Chapter 8 "Beware the Fanatic!": Jewishness, Whiteness, and Civil Rights in X-Men (1963-1970) Martin Lund Chapter 9 Mutation, Racialization, Decimation: The X-Men as White Men Neil Shyminsky Chapter 10 White Plasticity and Black Possibility in Darwyn Cooke''s DC: The New Frontier Sean Guynes Part III: Whiteness by a Different Color Chapter 11 White or Indian? Whiteness and Becoming the White Indian Comics Superhero Yvonne Chireau Chapter 12 "A True Son of K''un-Lun": The Awkward Racial Politics of White Martial Arts Superheroes in the 1970s Matthew Pustz Chapter 13 The Whitest There Is at What I Do: Japanese Identity and the Unmarked Hero in Wolverine (1982) Eric Sobel Chapter 14 The Dark Knight: Whiteness, Appropriation, Colonization, and Batman in the New 52 Era Jeffrey A. Brown Afterword Empowerment for Some, or Tentacle Sex for All Noah Berlatsky List of Contributors Index

SynopsisIn Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics , Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the histories and stakes of whiteness studies, superhero comics, and superhero studies for academics, fans, and media-makers alike. The volume illustrates how the American comic book superhero is fundamentally a figure of white power and white supremacy and ultimately calls for diversity in superhero comics as well as a democratized media culture. Contributors not only examine superhero narratives but also delve into the production, distribution, audience, and reception of those narratives, highlighting the imbrication of forces that have helped to create, normalize, question, and sometimes even subvert American beliefs about whiteness and race. Unstable Masks considers the co-constitutive nature of identity, representation, narrative, production and consumption, and historical and cultural contexts in forging the stereotypes that decide who gets to be a superhero and who gets to be American on the four-color pages of comic books., A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics , Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring together a series of essays that contextualize the histories and stakes of whiteness studies, superhero comics, and superhero studies for academics, fans, and media-makers alike. The volume illustrates how the American comic book superhero is fundamentally a figure of white power and white supremacy and ultimately calls for diversity in superhero comics as well as a democratized media culture. Contributors not only examine superhero narratives but also delve into the production, distribution, audience, and reception of those narratives, highlighting the imbrication of forces that have helped to create, normalize, question, and sometimes even subvert American beliefs about whiteness and race. Unstable Masks considers the co-constitutive nature of identity, representation, narrative, production and consumption, and historical and cultural contexts in forging the stereotypes that decide who gets to be a superhero and who gets to be American on the four-color pages of comic books., Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the unspoken whiteness that overwhelms American superhero narratives.