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Superheroes and the radical imagination of american comics ramzi fawaz offers a refreshing and much needed analysis of post world war ii superhero comics applying queer theory to mainstream superhero stories and arguing for the profound world making potential of.

The new mutants ramzi. In 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. Ramzi fawaz is an assistant professor of english at the university of wisconsin madison. How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender sexual and race revolutions. New york university press 2016.

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An associate professor of english at the university of wisconsin madison ramzi fawaz is the author of the new mutants. The new mutants provides the first full length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern united states. His research and teaching explore the cultural production of radical left wing.