Keeping it unreal : Black queer fantasy and superhero comics / Darieck Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Darieck, author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American superheroes.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Fantasy--Social aspects.

Fantasy.

Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.

Fantasy literature.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books. Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naive and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination. This book is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to - and respite from - white supremacy and anti-Blackness.

Contents:

Cover

KEEPING IT UNREAL

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

Introduction: Fantastic Bullets

1. I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act

2. Can the Black Superhero Be? Blackness vs. the Superhero

3. Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire

Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 9, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4798-1169-6

9781479811694

OCLC:

1281972086