Ti-Girl Power
American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12997232 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Matt Yockey (University of Toledo, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2015 |
| Volumen | 10 |
| Número | 2 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Editorial | European Association for American Studies (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.11014 |
| OpenAlex | W1949472845 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 3 |
This paper examines the ways in which artist-writer Jaime Hernandez engages with issues of national belonging in terms of ethnicity and gender in his 2012 superhero graphic novel God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. By presenting the adventures of a group of multi-racial female superheroes, Hernandez productively exploits the inherent social marginality of the superhero, conflating it with a comparable marginality of non-whites and women in American society. By doing so, he rearticulates that marginality as an actualization of the promise of pluralistic utopianism inherent in American society. As a Chicano and fan of Silver Age superhero comic books himself, Henandez also realizes this ethos for himself in the very creation of this work
Adventure · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Comics · Ethnic group · Ethos · Girl · Literature · Political science · Power (physics · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Law · Psychology
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |