The New Mutant Fawaz

An eye opening read and fawaz offers a way of reading superhero comics that is rooted both in scholarship and in the rich history of superhero narratives.

The new mutant fawaz. New york university press 2016. He moves beyond the what and into the how and why the linking of new mutants post wwii teenage social rebels to the x men team of the same name is brilliant. Ramzi fawaz s marvelous new book the new mutants digs deep into the long history of superheroes and unearths a radical political tradition that has mostly gone unnoticed until now. Superheroes and the radical imagination of american comics published in january 2016 by nyu press which received the 2012 2013 center for lesbian and.

Fawaz takes a concept that seems a little obvious x representing y in comic books and fleshes it out with research and fascinating new interpretations. An eye opening read and fawaz offers a way of reading superhero comics that is rooted both in scholarship and in the rich history of superhero narratives. Ramzi fawaz is an american associate professor of english at the university of wisconsin madison where he teaches courses in queer and feminist theory american cultural studies and lgbtq literature. Ramzi fawaz is an assistant professor of english at the university of wisconsin madison.

Superheroes and the radical imagination of american comics nyu press 2016 which won the 2017 asap book prize from the association for the study of the arts of the present. An associate professor of english at the university of wisconsin madison ramzi fawaz is the author of the new mutants. Ramzi fawaz s marvelous new book the new mutants digs deep into the long history of superheroes and unearths a radical political tradition that has mostly goneunnoticed until now. Through a series of comic book case studies including the justice league of america the fantastic four the x men and the new mutants alongside late 20th century fan writing cultural criticism and political documents fawaz reveals how the american superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after.

Through a series of comic book case studies including the justice league of america the fantastic four the x men and the new mutants alongside late 20th century fan writing cultural criticism and political documents fawaz reveals how the american superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. Through a series of comic book case studies including the justice league of america the fantastic four the x men and the new mutants alongside late 20th century fan writing cultural criticism and political documents fawaz reveals how the american superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. Superheroes and the radical imagination of american comics. His research and teaching explore the cultural production of radical left wing.

He is the author of the new mutants.