1st Edition
Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction A Fastball Special
By Christopher Michael Roman
Copyright 2023
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction.
Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to... Read more
Introduction: A Fastball Special; 1: Wolverine and the Open Body; 2: Wolverine and Queer Kinships; 3: Queering Wolverine in Fan Fiction; Conclusion: Wolverine in Queer Time; Bibliography
Biography
Christopher Michael Roman is Professor of English at Kent State University and specializes in Comics Studies and the Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+ Literature, and Queer Theory. His comics studies work has been published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and IJOCA. He is also author of Domestic Mysticism in Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich (2005) and Queering Richard Rolle (2017). He is the co-editor of the collection Medieval Futurity (2021).
