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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 소설/시/희곡 > 문학비평 > 만화/그래픽 노블
· ISBN : 9781772127119
· 쪽수 : 336쪽
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The Cancer Plot examines the prevalence of cancer in Marvel comics. Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman engage literature in comics studies, the medical humanities, and graphic medicine to explore representations of this disease in Marvel, focusing on four character case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, thematically destabilizes moral binaries and symbolizes that which cannot be overcome within a genre replete with magic, mutants, and multiverses. Further, Wiebe and Woodman draw from gender theory, disability studies, and cultural theory to demonstrate how representations of cancer in comics enables an examination of power and responsibility, key terms in Marvel's superhero universe. As the only full-length study on cancer in the Marvel universe, The Cancer Plot is an appealing and original work that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities, particularly those working in the health humanities, cultural theory, and literature, as well as avid comics readers.
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INTRODUCTION: But I Don't Want to Cure Cancer
SECTION 1: Bodies, Cancer, and Death
Chapter One: The Body is the Story: Emploting Bodies and Cancer
Chapter Two: Death and Cancer: Weeding a Tangled Garden
SECTION 2: Cancer, Power, and Responsibility: Exploring Four Superhero Stories
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL
Chapter Three: This Whole Business of Death: Cancer and the Enduring Death of Captain Marvel
EDITOR'S NOTE: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: REMEDY AND POISON
Chapter Four: Cure as Poison: The Superhero's Moral Battle as Paradox
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE MIGHTY THOR
Chapter Five: When Cancer is a Fatal Opportunity
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE DESPICABLE DEADPOOL
Chapter Six: Welcome to the freak show!: Deadpool and Perpetual Remission
SECTION 3: Conclusions and Data
Conclusion: How Better to Achieve that Object
APPENDIX I: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer but did not die of it
APPENDIX II: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer and died from it
APPENDIX III: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer and died from either attempting to cure their cancer or destroy their enemies before succumbing to it
APPENDIX IV: Chart of cancer deaths by decade
APPENDIX V: List of DC characters who have had cancer
APPENDIX VI: List of DC characters with an unnamed terminal condition
APPENDIX VII: Chart of DC cancer and terminal condition by decade
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