| Series |
Graphic medicine ; [vol. 18]
Graphic medicine ; 18. ^A1438701
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| Contents |
"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 -- 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Uncanny bodies. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019] 9780271086309 |
| LCCN | 2019027765 |
| ISBN | 9780271084749 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 027108474X hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780271084756 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0271084758 paperback ; alkaline paper |
