The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character
from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In
Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this
twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible
figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global
capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological
imagination.
Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory
that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the
oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman
series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds,
can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing
and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the
“human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are
all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent
structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New
52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean
literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Authors: |
Ryan Poll
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
268 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-2585-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4962-2585-6 |
Barcode: |
9781496225856 |
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