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Roman, Christopher Michael. Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special. Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics. London, New York: Routledge, 2023. Added by: joachim (9/5/23, 4:14 PM) Last edited by: joachim (9/5/23, 4:18 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.4324/9781003222644 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781032120140 BibTeX citation key: Roman2023 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "X-Men", Gender, Superhero, USA Creators: Roman Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) |
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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction. Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant status, but also because his character, throughout his publication history, resists normalization, making him a site for a queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focusing on overt queer representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine’s bisexual and gay characterizations and in particular focuses on his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex relationships as depicted in fanfiction, this book traces a queer genealogy of Wolverine. |