Drawing Fear of Difference: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Ms. Marvel Comics

TY - JOUR

T1 - Drawing Fear of Difference: Race, Gender, and National Identity in Ms. Marvel Comics

AU - Cooper-Cunningham, Dean

PY - 2019/10

Y1 - 2019/10

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - queer

KW - feminism

KW - poststructuralism

KW - identity

KW - Global War on Terror

KW - USA

KW - popular culture

KW - pop culture

U2 - 10.1177/0123456789123456

DO - 10.1177/0123456789123456

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0305-8298

JO - Millennium: Journal of International Studies

JF - Millennium: Journal of International Studies

ER -