التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Life is a long exorcism: horror as mixed race resistance in Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda's Monstress. |
| المؤلفون: |
Poulsen, Melissa Eriko |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics; Aug2024, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p540-555, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ASIAN American literature, SPECULATIVE fiction, NARRATIVES, SUPERHERO comic books, strips, etc., MULTIRACIAL people |
| People: |
LIU, Marjorie |
| مستخلص: |
In Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda's award-winning speculative comic series Monstress (2015-), protagonist Maika Halfwolf is a woman of many monsters, reminiscent at times of a zombie, vampire, onryō, werewolf, and more. This article argues that the (over)abundance of monster references and other speculative elements are central vehicles for exploring contemporary and historical representations of Asian multiraciality in the United States. Monstress uses the speculative, including monster tropes, to superimpose competing figurations of racial mixture in the United States – from narratives of passing to narratives of treachery to narratives of superheroes. Maika becomes almost incoherent as these meanings are layered upon her character, used to define her story arcs, and visualised upon her body. Liu and Takeda thus draw attention to and unsettle the way knowledge about mixed race Asians is produced and replicated, dreaming of unsignified – of exorcized – multiraciality. At its heart, Monstress uncovers and lauds the agency of mixed race characters within and against the confines of the narratives in which they have long been captured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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