| Description |
xiii, 228 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 181-210) and index. |
| Contents |
From Patrice Lumumba to Sidney Poitier: Early Fantastic Four and Avengers Appearances -- The Jungle Book: Don McGregor Creates His Own Africa -- The Finished Man: Don McGregor (Almost) Completes His 'Panther Novel' -- The Return of the Kings: The Amazing and Wacky Adventures of Jack Kirby's Panther -- The Client Was a Man of Remarkable Focus: A Panther and a Priest - The Spy King: How Christopher Priest's Version of The Panther Forever Shook Up The Avengers - "Bad Mutha': Reginald Hudlin's Uncompromised Royal Black (Super-)Man and the Unbridled Black Imagination -- Side-Swipes: The New York Ghost Cop and the Wakandan Princess As 'Replacement' Panthers -- The (Black) Man Without Fear: That Time Panther Briefly Replaced Daredevil -- Between the World and Him: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Panther -- Panther Slices Through Captain America: Civil War. |
| Summary |
"Through a textual analysis, this book narrates the history of the character from his first appearance in 1966--the same year, the Black Panther Party was formed in Oakland, California--through Ta-Nehisi Coates' version in 2015. It tells the story of how Black and white writers envisioned the character between those years, as a Patrice Lumumba to a Sidney Poitier to a Nelson Mandela to a hip-hop cool to a reflective, 21st century king. Along the way, the limitations of white liberalism and the boundless nature of the Black imagination are revealed. Marvel's Black Panther is the first textual study of a superhero comic book character, examining its writers and the stories they have created over a fifty year period" -- publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Black Panther (Fictitious character) -- History.
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Superheroes in literature -- History.
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Comic strip characters -- History.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
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Comic strip characters. (OCoLC)fst00869188
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism.
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Superheroes in literature. (OCoLC)fst01904835
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781937306649 (paperback) |
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193730664X (paperback) |
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