Aquaman and the War against Oceans
Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene
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2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2585-6 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2585-6 (ISBN)
Ryan Poll argues that the New 52 Aquaman develops the superhero into a figure of ecological justice who charts the environmental apocalypse caused by global capitalism and helps readers connect the violences occurring in the ocean to those occurring on the surface, including sexism and racism.
The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.
Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.
The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.
Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.
Ryan Poll is an associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization.
List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New 52 Aquaman’s Allegorical Project to See beyond the Anthropocene
1. Deep in the Trenches: Monsters, Humanism, and Ecological Allegories
2. Waves of Feminism: Mera, Paradigm Shifts, and Allegories of Reading
3. The Apocalyptic Ocean: Orm, Frames of Justice, and Allegories of Radical Politics
4. Allegories of White Supremacy: Black Manta and the Black Atlantic
Afterword: The Ocean’s Black, Queer, Brown, and Indigenous Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 illustrations, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2585-6 / 1496225856 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2585-6 / 9781496225856 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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