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It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America's very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself.

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The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certain gender roles, body types, sexualities, and racial identities at the expense of others? Hot Pants and Spandex Suits offers a far-reaching look at how masculinity and femininity have been represented in American superhero comics, from the Golden and Silver Ages to the Modern Age. Scholar Esther De Dauw contrasts the bulletproof and musclebound phallic bodies of classic male heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Iron Man with the figures of female counterparts like Wonder Woman and Supergirl, who are drawn as superhumanly flexible and plastic. It also examines the genre’s ambivalent treatment of LGBTQ representation, from the presentation of gay male heroes Wiccan and Hulkling as a model minority couple to the troubling association of Batwoman’s lesbianism with monstrosity. Finally, it explores the intersection between gender and race through case studies of heroes like Luke Cage, Storm, and Ms. Marvel. Hot Pants and Spandex Suits is a fascinating and thought-provoking consideration of what superhero comics teach us about identity, embodiment, and sexuality.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- Gender identity in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Race awareness in literature. --- Superheroes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Gender Studies, Representation, Superhero, Comic Books, DC, Marvel, Pop Culture, Media, Mass Media, Gender Roles, Sexualities, Race, Identity, Golden Age, Silver Age, Captain America, Iron Man, Classics, LGBTQ, Genre, Superman, Legacy, Masculinity, Heroes, Culture, America.

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Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States.Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard "Grass" Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Cruté, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed.

African Americans --- Belonging (Social psychology) in art. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Belonging (Social psychology). --- Racism in cartoons --- Racism in cartoons. --- Caricatures and cartoons. --- United States. --- Belonging (Social psychology) in art --- Caricatures and cartoons --- African Americans - Caricatures and cartoons --- Racism in cartoons - United States --- Belonging (Social psychology) - United States --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Aaron McGruder. --- African American Art. --- African American Soldiers. --- African American cartoonists. --- African American children. --- African Americans. --- Black Aesthetics. --- Black Body. --- Black Panther. --- Black superheroes. --- Brumsic Brandon Jr. --- Captain America. --- Civil Rights Movement. --- Comics. --- Hermeneutic. --- Ho Che Anderson. --- Icon. --- Jennifer Cruté. --- Kyle Baker. --- Larry Fuller. --- Martin Luther King Jr. --- Nat Turner. --- Ollie Harrington. --- R Crumb. --- Richard Grass Green. --- Thomas Nast. --- U.S. comics. --- Violence. --- World War II. --- black liberation. --- black masculinity. --- citizenship. --- editorial cartoons. --- equal opportunity humor. --- infantile citizenship. --- offensive humor. --- racial melancholia. --- slavery. --- stereotype. --- underground comix. --- visual culture.