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Keeping It Unreal : Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explore la façon dont la fantaisie - en particulier les bandes dessinées de super-héros, qui sont généralement considérées comme naïves et enfantines - est un catalyseur pour engager l'imagination radicale noire. De tels engagements suscitent des "actes fantaisistes" contre l'anti-noirisme, une manière transgressive de "lire" au-delà de la page de la bande dessinée pour envisager et expérimenter des réalités alternatives et potentiellement plus justes. Selon l'auteur, les fantasmes sur les personnages de super-héros ne sont pas seulement, ni même principalement, des formes d'évasion, mais des remodelages actifs des lecteurs et de leurs mondes. Ce livre offre une riche méditation sur la relation entre le fantasme et la réalité, et entre l'imagination et l'être, car il mêle les souvenirs personnels de Scott sur ses rencontres avec les BD de super-héros à des lectures interprétatives de personnages tels que la Panthère noire, Luke Cage, Nubia et Blade, et à des théoriciens tels que Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersan et Saidiya Hartman. Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters 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 naïve 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.

African American superheroes. --- African Americans --- Fantasy --- Fantasy comic books, strips, etc. --- Fantasy literature. --- Queer theory. --- Race identity. --- Social aspects. --- Gays, Black. --- Noirs américains --- Fantasmes --- Fantastique (littérature) --- Théorie queer. --- Ethnicité. --- Société. --- Gay people, Black.