Keeping it unreal : Black queer fantasy and superhero comics
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Author
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2021].
Status
Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
741.5 Sc
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741.5 Sc
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Published
New York : New York University Press, [2021].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
266 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy -- especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish -- is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt "fantasy-acts" against antiblackness, a transgressive way of "reading" beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, the author argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott's personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade, and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Scott, D. (2021). Keeping it unreal: Black queer fantasy and superhero comics . New York University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scott, Darieck. 2021. Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. New York University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scott, Darieck. Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics New York University Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Scott, Darieck. Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics New York University Press, 2021.
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