Description:
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.
Brief description: Scott T. Smith is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University.
Review Quotes:
"Uncanny Bodies offers nuanced interrogations of how dis/ability is presented within superhero narratives. The strength of the volume lies in the wide range of topics treated and in the diverse methodological approaches chosen, from posthumanist considerations to queer theory. A constant is an unwavering commitment to taking seriously the multifaceted and intersectional nature of the issue(s) at hand. As such, Uncanny Bodies will be a point of reference for further scholarship in the field."
--Joanna Nowotny, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich