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🏛 Penn State University Press 📅 2019 📖 256 pages 🌐 English 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780271084749

📝 Description: Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability

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.

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