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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Scott, Darieck.     Subjects     Lambda Literary Award.     Superheroes, Black.     Superhero comic books, strips, etc. -- Themes, motives.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Fantasy -- Social aspects.     Queer theory.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Scott, Darieck.       by title:      Keeping it unreal : ...       by call number:      741.5352 S425k     Search the Web     Scott, Darieck.     Lambda Literary Award.     Superheroes, Black.     Superhero comic books, strips, etc. -- Themes, motives.     Blacks -- Race identity.     Fantasy -- Social aspects.     Queer theory.       MARC Display

Keeping it unreal : Black queer fantasy and superhero comics / Darieck Scott. by Scott, Darieck. New York University Press, 2022. Call #: 741.5352 S425k Subjects Lambda Literary Award.   Superheroes, Black.   Superhero comic books, strips, etc. -- Themes, motives.   Blacks -- Race identity.   Fantasy -- Social aspects.   Queer theory. ISBN:  9781479824144 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Black queer fantasy and superhero comics Description:  267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction: Fantastic bullets -- I am Nubia: superhero comics and the paradigm of the fantasy-act -- Can the Black superhero be? Blackness vs. the superhero -- Erotic fantasy-acts: the art of desire -- Conclusion: on becoming fantastical. Summary:  "Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy -- especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish -- is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt "fantasy-acts" against antiblackness, a transgressive way of "reading" beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, the author argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott's personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade, and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal"--From publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies, 2023. Genre:  2SLGBTQIA+ Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 741.5352 S425k Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList

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