{"product_id":"queering-wolverine-in-comics-and-fanfiction-a-fastball-special-hardcover","title":"Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Michael Roman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era conservatism or hegemonic hypermasculinity, Wolverine does not conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant status, but also because his character, throughout his publication history, resists normalization, making him a site for a queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focusing on overt queer representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine's bisexual and gay characterizations and in particular focuses on his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex relationships as depicted in fanfiction, this book traces a queer genealogy of Wolverine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is ideal reading for students and scholars of comics studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Michael Roman \u003c\/strong\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIJOCA. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also author of \u003ci\u003eDomestic Mysticism in Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) and \u003ci\u003eQueering Richard Rolle \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). He is the co-editor of the collection \u003ci\u003eMedieval Futurity \u003c\/i\u003e(2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781511807264,"sku":"9781032120140","price":119.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ce76f74cbc25a30f14349c03a4aa9fb4.webp?v=1780552388","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/queering-wolverine-in-comics-and-fanfiction-a-fastball-special-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}