![]() In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. ![]() Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies ![]() 2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prizeįinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association
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