{"product_id":"keeping-it-unreal-black-queer-fantasy-and-superhero-comics-hardback-9781479840137","title":"Keeping It Unreal; Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics (Hardback) 9781479840137","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKeeping It Unreal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDarieck Scott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479840137\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 January 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 42 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. (Publishers Weekly) \u003cp\u003eThis fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics\u003cbr\u003e to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a 'habitable imaginary' where dreams\u003cbr\u003e are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to\u003cbr\u003e find liberation and Black queer life.\u003c\/p\u003e (Jennifer Brody, Stanford University) \u003cp\u003eA primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility\u003cbr\u003e of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the\u003cbr\u003e meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining\u003cbr\u003e blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic\u003cbr\u003e genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of\u003cbr\u003e black futurity.\u003c\/p\u003e (Tina Campt, Brown University) Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott's \u003ci\u003eKeeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comic\u003c\/i\u003es is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. (Ethnic and Racial Studies) In \u003ci\u003eKeeping It Unreal\u003c\/i\u003e, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body's identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. (Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eExplores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKeeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Darieck Scott offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade, as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. \u003ci\u003eKeeping It Unreal\u003c\/i\u003e represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and draws on a variety of fields of inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e Reading new life into Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke, and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591106556184,"sku":"9781479840137","price":64.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/keeping-it-unreal-black-queer-fantasy-and-superhero-comics-hardback-9781479840137","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}