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Summary:

"Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy-especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish-is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt "fantasy-acts" against antiblackness, a transgressive way of "reading" beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape, the author argues, but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as it weaves Scott's personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther, Luke Cage, Nubia, and Blade, and theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Fantastic Bullets
• I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act
• Can the Black Superhero Be?
• Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire
• Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical.

Author/Creator:

Scott, Darieck , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Keeping it unreal: Black queer fantasy and superhero comics [by Scott, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Keeping it unreal [by Scott, D.] (New York : New York University Press, [2021] — ISBN 9781479840137; LCCN 2021011567; OCLC Number 1245960204)

Related Series:

Sexual cultures

Subjects:

African American superheroes

African Americans — Race identity

Fantasy — Social aspects

Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.

Fantasy literature

Queer theory

African Americans

Fantasy

Genres:

Festschriften

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6714 .S384 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781479811694 (electronic bk.)
1479811696 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1281972086