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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fan Fiction - A Fastball Special (Hardcover)
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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fan Fiction - A Fastball Special (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
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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. Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era
conservatism or hegemonic hyper-masculinity, 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 focus 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 fan fiction, 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.
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