New Mutants - Fawaz Ramzi
How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora…
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How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT StudiesIn 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as "new mutants," social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and "freaks" soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of