Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction
A Fastball Special
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2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-12015-7 (ISBN)
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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented, queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.
Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.
Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant status, but also because his character, throughout his publication history, resists normalization, making him a site for a queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focusing on overt queer representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine’s bisexual and gay characterizations and in particular focuses on his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex relationships as depicted in fanfiction, this book traces a queer genealogy of Wolverine.
This book is ideal reading for students and scholars of comics studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and literature.
Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.
Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant status, but also because his character, throughout his publication history, resists normalization, making him a site for a queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focusing on overt queer representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine’s bisexual and gay characterizations and in particular focuses on his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex relationships as depicted in fanfiction, this book traces a queer genealogy of Wolverine.
This book is ideal reading for students and scholars of comics studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and literature.
Christopher Michael Roman is Professor of English at Kent State University and specializes in Comics Studies and the Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+ Literature, and Queer Theory. His comics studies work has been published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and IJOCA. He is also author of Domestic Mysticism in Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich (2005) and Queering Richard Rolle (2017). He is the co-editor of the collection Medieval Futurity (2021).
Introduction: A Fastball Special; 1: Wolverine and the Open Body; 2: Wolverine and Queer Kinships; 3: Queering Wolverine in Fan Fiction; Conclusion: Wolverine in Queer Time; Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-12015-0 / 1032120150 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-12015-7 / 9781032120157 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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