9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Superheroes in Black and White
5. 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s Comic and Cinematic Homecomings 27
6. 2. The Ride of Valkyrie against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor: Ragnarok 46
7. 3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson’s Poetry 64
8. 4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in The Flash Comics and Television Show 81
9. Part 2. Metaphors of / and Mixedness
10. 5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe 105
11. 6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes 120
12. 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress 138
13. 8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race Studies 158
14. Part 3. Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections)
15. 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales 179
16. 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX’s Legion 199
17. 11. Into the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility 220
18. 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring 243
19. Acknowledgments 261
20. Notes on Contributors 263
21. Index 267