Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and
Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes
on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naive
and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how
this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical
imagination. Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is
an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion
theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to-and respite
from-white supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines
representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero
comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre
literature, as well as contemporary literary "realist" fiction
centering fantastic conceits. Darieck Scott offers a rich
meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and
between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal
recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with
interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade,
as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo
Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal
represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the
intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and
draws on a variety of fields of inquiry. Reading new life into
Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to
rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke,
and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly
human.
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