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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Josef Benson , Doug SingsenPublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.427kg ISBN: 9781496838346ISBN 10: 1496838343 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 30 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsProviding a history of whiteness in American comics from the 1930s to the present, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels brings attention to the hidden racial hierarchy that has shaped comics. This timely volume--which looks at everything from early superhero comics to jungle comics of the 1940s and 1950s, underground and alternative comix hits from the 1960s to today, and more recent diverse superhero comics--offers an account of whiteness and white supremacy as the structuring agent of racial inequality in comics that has gone almost completely unexplored.--Sean Guynes, writer, critic, and coeditor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics Providing a history of whiteness in American comics from the 1930s to the present, Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels brings attention to the hidden racial hierarchy that has shaped comics. This timely volume--which looks at everything from early superhero comics to jungle comics of the 1940s and 1950s, underground and alternative comix hits from the 1960s to today, and more recent diverse superhero comics--offers an account of whiteness and white supremacy as the structuring agent of racial inequality in comics that has gone almost completely unexplored.--Sean Guynes, coeditor of Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics Author InformationJosef Benson is associate professor of literatures and languages at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He is author of Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture; J. D. Salinger's ""The Catcher in the Rye"": A Cultural History; and Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. Doug Singsen is associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. His work has been published in Modernism/modernity, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Key Terms in Comics Studies, Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, and Art History Teaching Resources. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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