Oh My Goddess: Anthropological Thoughts On the Representation of Marvel’s Storm and the Legacy of Black Women in Comics
This study presents a qualitative analysis on the representation of black women in comic books using a sociocultural approach to their production-release background. We study the X-Men mutant character Storm, whose path reinforces and questions the social roles these women enact. We state that the a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-06-01
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| Series: | The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship |
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| Online Access: | https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/3520/ |
| Summary: | This study presents a qualitative analysis on the representation of black women in comic books using a sociocultural approach to their production-release background. We study the X-Men mutant character Storm, whose path reinforces and questions the social roles these women enact. We state that the analysis of cultural assets aimed at entertainment, like comic books, helps us consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity in our society. |
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| ISSN: | 2048-0792 |