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Bodies in transition. Queering the Comic Book Superhero

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dc.creatorStein, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-24T09:29:41Z
dc.date.available2018-09-24T09:29:41Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis essay analyzes the comic book superhero as a popular figure whose queerness follows as much from the logic of the comics medium and the aesthetic principles of the genre as it does from a dialectic tension between historically evolving heteronormative and queer readings. Focusing specifically on the superbody as an overdetermined site of gendered significances, the essay traces a shift from the ostensibly straight iterations in the early years of the genre to the more recent appearance of openly queer characters. It further suggests that the struggle over the superbody’s sexual orientation and gender identity has been an essential force in the development of the genre from its inception until the present day.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/1832
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/1822
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:hbz:467-13361
dc.languageeng
dc.publisheruniversi - Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisheruniversi - Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1619-1641
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1920
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNavigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectComicde
dc.subjectSuperheldde
dc.subjectKörperde
dc.subjectBatmande
dc.subject.ddcddc:741.5
dc.titleBodies in transition. Queering the Comic Book Superherode
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationStein, Daniel (2018): Bodies in transition. Queering the Comic Book Superhero. In: Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 18 (1), 15–38. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1832.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:10:29
local.identifier.firstpublishedurn:nbn:de:hbz:467-13361
local.source.epage38
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage15
local.source.volume18
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/119086611
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2695156

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