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This book brings together comic studies and critical animal studies to provide a critical media analysis that centralizes total liberation for all beings-both human and nonhuman. Through the lens of superheroes, the book explores the cultural and literal consumption of nonhumans as a strategy for confronting humanism at large.
Sommario
Foreword, Vas Stanescu
Introduction, JL Schatz and Sean Parson
Part I
1. Critical Animal Studies and Comics in the Classroom: Liberation and Everyday Superheroes, John Lupinacci
2. Ecological Pessimism and The Puma Blues, Kent Worcester
3. 'We Are All Scream!' Woodgod and the 'Animal Superhero,' José Alaniz
4. Making Superheroes of Children: The (Mis)Use of Nonhumans in Inspiring Childhood Development, JL Schatz
Part II
5. Dilemmas of Animal Rights in the Animal Man Comic Book Series, Márcio dos Santos Rodrigues and Matheus da Cruz e Zica
6. We3 and the Violence of Sentimentality, Allison Dushane
7. White God: Rethinking Human and Nonhuman Subjectivities through Underdog-Superhero Narratives and Ahuman Theory, Chantelle Gray van Heerden
Part III
8 Bruteness: Gender, Race, and Animality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jeffrey Pannekoek and Karin Anderson
9. Cyborgs, Companion Species, and the General Will: The Deeply Constitutive Relationship Between Bats and Batman, Matt Evans
10. Ain't No Thing Like Me, Except Me: Rocket Raccoon, Cyborg Queerness, and Toxic-Masculinity, Sean Parson
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Sean Parson is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Northern Arizona University. JL Schatz is director of speech and debate at Binghamton University.Sean Parson is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Northern Arizona University. JL Schatz is director of speech and debate at Binghamton University.
Riassunto
This book brings together comic studies and critical animal studies to provide a critical media analysis that centralizes total liberation for all beings—both human and nonhuman. Through the lens of superheroes, the book explores the cultural and literal consumption of nonhumans as a strategy for confronting humanism at large.
