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Yockey, Matt. "Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text." European Journal of American Studies 10. 2 2015. Accessed 3Sep. 2015. <http://ejas.revues.org/11014>. Added by: joachim (9/3/15, 5:10 PM) Last edited by: joachim (9/3/15, 5:19 PM) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.4000/ejas.11014 BibTeX citation key: Yockey2015 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Love and Rockets", Alternative Comics, Ethnicity, Gender, Hernandez. Jaime, Superhero, USA, Utopia Creators: Yockey Collection: European Journal of American Studies |
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| Attachments | URLs http://ejas.revues.org/11014 |
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This paper examines the ways in which artist-writer Jaime Hernandez engages with issues of national belonging in terms of ethnicity and gender in his 2012 superhero graphic novel God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. By presenting the adventures of a group of multi-racial female superheroes, Hernandez productively exploits the inherent social marginality of the superhero, conflating it with a comparable marginality of non-whites and women in American society. By doing so, he rearticulates that marginality as an actualization of the promise of pluralistic utopianism inherent in American society. As a Chicano and fan of Silver Age superhero comic books himself, Henandez also realizes this ethos for himself in the very creation of this work.
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