{"product_id":"aquaman-and-the-war-against-oceans-9781496225856","title":"Aquaman and the War against Oceans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In \u003ci\u003eAquaman and the War against Oceans\u003c\/i\u003e, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Poll contends that The New 52 \u003ci\u003eAquaman\u003c\/i\u003e should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The \u003ci\u003eAquaman\u003c\/i\u003e series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While at times a mocked superhero, DC's Aquaman has much to teach its readers about environmental justice, the Ocean, and fighting oppression during the Anthropocene.\"—Nicole Rehnberg, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAquaman and the War against Oceans\u003c\/i\u003e couldn’t be more important to read. It is the book for our times. Ryan Poll has written a page-turner, and not many academic texts can be called that. It is probably the smoothest integration of scholarly and journalistic sources I have yet encountered, written in a style that could be enjoyed by superhero fandom, undergraduates in an environmental humanities course, and scholars doing research on ecocriticism and superhero politics.”—Marc DiPaolo, author of \u003ci\u003eFire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to “Game of Thrones”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this scholarly tour de force, Poll sonar-maps new scholarly biomes. He radically reorientates research frames and opens scholarly slipstreams to vital new ways of engaging with and adding to blue humanities, Black Atlantic, ecofeminist, and critical race studies. This is superhero comics scholarship at its best!”—Frederick Luis Aldama, author of the Eisner Award–winning \u003ci\u003eLatinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors’ Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The New 52 \u003ci\u003eAquaman\u003c\/i\u003e’s Allegorical Project to See beyond the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e 1. Deep in the Trenches: Monsters, Humanism, and Ecological Allegories\u003cbr\u003e 2. Waves of Feminism: Mera, Paradigm Shifts, and Allegories of Reading\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Apocalyptic Ocean: Orm, Frames of Justice, and Allegories of Radical Politics\u003cbr\u003e 4. Allegories of White Supremacy: Black Manta and the Black Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Ocean’s Black, Queer, Brown, and Indigenous Futures\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409235255639,"sku":"9781496225856","price":19.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225856.jpg?v=1730506079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aquaman-and-the-war-against-oceans-9781496225856","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}