The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Fawaz, Ramzi
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Fawaz, Ramzi

The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First...
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The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Fawaz, Ramzi

The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

$107.60
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Fawaz, Ramzi

The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

$107.60
Author: Ramzi Fawaz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize

Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association

Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies

How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.

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 America's 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 Women's 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.

Author: Ramzi Fawaz
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 01/22/2016
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781479823086


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2015
Library Journal 11/15/2015 pg. 98
Choice 11/01/2016

About the Author
Ramzi Fawaz is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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