Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability

Book Overview

Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027108474X
• ISBN13: 9780271084749
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"