All new, all different? : a history of race and the American superhero / Allan W. Austin, Patrick L. Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Allan W., author.

Hamilton, Patrick Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Heroes.

United States.

Heroes--Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Race in literature.

Superheroes in literature.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction : into the "gutters"

1. "World's finest?" : the wartime superhero and race, 1941-1945

2. Struggling for social relevance : DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945-1965

3. "We're all brothers!" : the ideal of liberal brotherhood in the 1960s & 1970s

4. Guess who's coming to save you? : the rise of the ethnic superhero in the 1960s & 1970s

5. "Something for everyone:" the super team in the age of multiculturalism, 1975-1996

6. Replacement heroes and the quest for inclusion, 1985-2011

7. Something old, something new: heroes reborn and reimagined, 1990-2015

Coda : born again (and again and again ... and again and again. . .).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index.

ISBN:

9781477318966

1477318968

9781477318973

1477318976

OCLC:

1076417962