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Smith, Philip. "Reading Aaron Diaz’s Wonder Woman." Literature Compass 14. 5 2017. Accessed 14Jun. 2019. <https://onlinelibrary.w ... /abs/10.1111/lic3.12384>. Added by: joachim (6/14/19, 4:49 PM) Last edited by: joachim (6/14/19, 7:44 PM) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1111/lic3.12384 BibTeX citation key: Smith2017c Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Wonder Woman", Fandom, Gender, Superhero, USA Creators: Smith Collection: Literature Compass |
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| Attachments | URLs https://onlinelibr ... 10.1111/lic3.12384 |
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This paper seeks, first, to provide a review of Wonder Woman scholarship to date and, second, to document the (a)e(s)th(e)tic underpinnings and execution of one depiction of Wonder Woman, a version which exists only in a single image (discussed in two separate posts), created by one Aaron Diaz, proprietor of the webcomic Dresden Codak and blog Indistinguishable from Magic. To understand Diaz’s Wonder Woman we do not simply need to consider the image which Diaz drew, but the versions of the character which he seeks to critique. I seek to demonstrate that Diaz's reinvention of Wonder Woman not only fails to address many of the issues which surround the representation of gender in superhero narratives, but actively removes the potentially positive work found in other incarnations of the character.
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