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Licari-Guillaume, Isabelle. "Relocating/Dislocating the Center in Milligan and Fegredo’s Enigma." Leaves 6 2018. Accessed 15Jan. 2021. <https://climas.u-bordea ... abelle-licari-guillaume>. Added by: joachim (1/15/21, 12:45 PM) Last edited by: joachim (1/15/21, 12:51 PM) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.21412/leaves_0610 BibTeX citation key: LicariGuillaume2018a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Enigma", Fegredo. Duncan, Gender, Metaisierung, Milligan. Peter, Sexuality, Superhero, United Kingdom, USA, Vertigo Creators: Licari-Guillaume Collection: Leaves |
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One of the first original creations for DC’s Vertigo line, Milligan and Fegredo’s Enigma begins as a deconstruction of superhero tropes; however, it then veers into a narrative of sexual discovery when the protagonist Michael Smith and his favourite comic book hero, the Enigma, unexpectedly fall in love. In many ways, Enigma can be read as an eccentric text that uses intentionally flawed narrative structures, destabilizes generic tropes and ultimately denounces rigid gender constructs. Milligan and Fegredo’s attempt to defend heterodoxy within the constraints of mainstream comics publishing is, I argue, one of the texts that would go on to define Vertigo’s specific position as a halfway-house between mainstream and alternative.
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