Category:    Sociology     The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (Postmillennial Pop) free ebook download

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Author(s): Ramzi Fawaz Date: 2013 Format: AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv) Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1479814334 Pages: 1 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: Uploader: comet Upload Date: 9/11/2018 12:12:08 PM     To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as new mutants, social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and freaks soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of Americas most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Womens and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States. Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin Del 2269122 Book http://www.nitroflare.com/view/83F8C21EC...   18.17 comet X Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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