Ryan Poll

Aquaman and the War Against Oceans

Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

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Produktbeschreibung

Ryan Poll argues that the New 52 Aquaman develops the superhero into a figure of ecological justice who charts the environmental apocalypse caused by global capitalism and helps readers connect the violences occurring in the ocean to those occurring on the surface, including sexism and racism.

Produktdetails

• Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781496225856
• ISBN-10: 1496225856
• Artikelnr.: 63245289

Autorenporträt

Ryan Poll is an associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New 52 Aquaman’s Allegorical Project to See beyond the
Anthropocene
1. Deep in the Trenches: Monsters, Humanism, and Ecological Allegories
2. Waves of Feminism: Mera, Paradigm Shifts, and Allegories of Reading
3. The Apocalyptic Ocean: Orm, Frames of Justice, and Allegories of Radical
Politics
4. Allegories of White Supremacy: Black Manta and the Black Atlantic
Afterword: The Ocean’s Black, Queer, Brown, and Indigenous Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index