Keeping It Unreal av Darieck Scott

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<p><b>Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books</b><br/>Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as na¿ and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.<br/><i>Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy</i> is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges to¿and respite from¿white supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary ¿realist¿ fiction centering fantastic conceits.<br/>Darieck Scott offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the