The Ages of Otherness: How Superhero Comics Reflect on Systemic Injustice and Racial and Gender Representation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Presenting complex worlds where literary narrative, “visual experience”, and “esthetic perception” perfectly mix, comics, especially superhero comics, are an original, compelling, and useful medium for an analysis on otherness and intersectional feminism. Studying the Ages of Comics, the article will underline the evolution of the medium and the fictional and historical fears, prejudices, hopes, and claims of its stories, also revealing the utopian and dystopian grounds of these realities. Behind tight-fitting suits, masks, and superpowers (or super-technology), comics often hide serious, compelling, urgent themes, such as, just to name a few, identity, discrimination, violence, segregation, migration, injustice, racism, misogyny, homophobia, illness, ecology, urbanization, materialism, and many more.
Source: Caietele Echinox
Author: Elisabetta Di Minico
Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W4401685477