| ID | 172343 |
| Title Proper | Drawing fear of difference |
| Other Title Information | race, gender, and national identity in Ms. Marvel Comics |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cooper-Cunningham, Dean |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Feminist scholars have provided important analyses of the gendered and racialised discourses used to justify the Global War on Terror. They show how post-9/11 policies were made possible through particular binary constructions of race, gender, and national identity in official discourse. Turning to popular culture, this article uses a Queer feminist poststructuralist approach to look at the ways that Ms. Marvel comics destabilise and contest those racialised and gendered discourses. Specifically, it explores how Ms. Marvel provides a reading of race, gender, and national identity in post-9/11 USA that challenges gendered-racialised stereotypes. Providing a Queer reading of Ms. Marvel that undermines the coherence of Self/Other binaries, the article concludes that to write, draw, and circulate comics and the politics they depict is a way of intervening in international relations that imbues comics with the power to engage in dialogue with and (re)shape systems of racialised-gendered domination and counter discriminatory legislation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 48, No.2; Jan 2020: p.165–197 |
| Journal Source | Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2020-03 48, 2 |
| Key Words | Popular Culture ; Identity ; Queer Feminist Poststructuralism |