All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero
2021; Oxford University Press; Volume: 108; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jaab047
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
ResumoThe superheroes that currently account for so much bandwidth in the American mediascape originated in the 1930s and draw on a variety of forms and traditions, from pulps to comic strips. Tales of these heroes, often progressive in tone in keeping with the New Deal, nonetheless replicated and reproduced the discourse of race in America. This book by Allan W. Austin and Patrick L. Hamilton catalogs the extent and variety of ways superhero stories engaged with representations of race, from outright vicious caricatures through to seemingly unconscious duplication of racist tropes by writers and artists. Given that the advent of superheroes in comic books, and in other media including comic strips, radio, animation, and movie serials, occurred just three years before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the ensuing race war in the Pacific that John W. Dower related in War without Mercy (1986), it is no surprise to find...
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