Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability - Hardcover

by Scott T. Smith (Editor), José Alaniz (Editor)

Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.

Author Biography

Scott T. Smith is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University.

José Alaniz is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.