Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies

Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498549271
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
206
Autor:
J.L. Schatz
Serie:
Critical Animal Studies and Theory
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

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.
Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies explores and puts into dialogue two growing field of studies, comic studies and critical animal studies. The book’s aim is to create a form of praxis that people can use to actualize many of the values superheroes strive to protect. To this end, contributor chapters are divided into sections on the foundation of superhero representation and how to teach it, criticisms of particular superheroes and how they fall short of truly protecting the planet, and interpretations of specific characters that can be read to produce a positive orientation to the nonhuman world and craft strategies to promote liberation in the real world. Altogether, the book produces a form of scholarship on the media that is both intersectional in scope and tailored to have an impact on the reader beyond theorizing superheroes for theorization’s sake.
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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