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Uncanny Bodies : Superhero Comics and Disability.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Graphic Medicine SeriesPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271086309
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncanny BodiesDDC classification:
  • 741.59
LOC classification:
  • PN6714 .U533 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "Mechanical Boys": Omega the Unknown on the Spectrum -- Chapter 2: Sane Superheroes: Mental Distress in the Gutters of Moon Knight -- Chapter 3: Echo: The Silence Between the Notes -- Chapter 4: Mistress of Cyberspace: Oracle, Disability, and the Cyborg -- Chapter 5: More than a Retcon Replacement: Disability, Blackness, and Sexuality in the Origin of Operator -- Chapter 6: "Okay . . . This Looks Bad": Disability, Masculinity, and Ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye -- Chapter 7: The deaf Issue: Hawkeye #19 and Deaf Accessibility in the Comics Medium -- Chapter 8: That Hawkguy: Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye -- Chapter 9: Dialectical Identity: Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero -- Chapter 10: "Of Course, I Am a Hero": Disability as Posthuman Ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo -- Chapter 11: Fearsome Possibilities: An Afterword -- INDEX.
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COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "Mechanical Boys": Omega the Unknown on the Spectrum -- Chapter 2: Sane Superheroes: Mental Distress in the Gutters of Moon Knight -- Chapter 3: Echo: The Silence Between the Notes -- Chapter 4: Mistress of Cyberspace: Oracle, Disability, and the Cyborg -- Chapter 5: More than a Retcon Replacement: Disability, Blackness, and Sexuality in the Origin of Operator -- Chapter 6: "Okay . . . This Looks Bad": Disability, Masculinity, and Ambivalence in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye -- Chapter 7: The deaf Issue: Hawkeye #19 and Deaf Accessibility in the Comics Medium -- Chapter 8: That Hawkguy: Deaf and Disability Gain in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye -- Chapter 9: Dialectical Identity: Silver Scorpion as Disabled/Superhero -- Chapter 10: "Of Course, I Am a Hero": Disability as Posthuman Ideal in Cece Bell's El Deafo -- Chapter 11: Fearsome Possibilities: An Afterword -- INDEX.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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