Received: Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero, by Jason Dittmer

Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero, by Jason Dittmer (Temple University Press, 2013)

We received a review copy of Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero. Metaphors, Narratives and Geopolitics, by Jason Dittmer (Temple University Press, 2013).

You can buy this book directly from Temple University Press, here.

paper EAN: 978-1-43990-977-5 (ISBN: 1-4399-0977-6)
$29.95, Nov 12
cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-976-8 (ISBN: 1-4399-0976-8)
$79.50, Jan 13
Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-43990-978-2 (ISBN: 1-4399-0978-4)
$29.95
242 pp 6×9 26 halftones

Read an excerpt from Chapter 1 [PDF].

Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Nationalist Superheroes
2. Gendered Nation-state, Gendered Hero
3. Embodying Multiculturalism
4. Origins
5. Narratives of Continuity and Change
6. Grounding the Nation-state
7. Geopolitical Orders
8. Alternate Worlds
9. Parody and Subversion
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
 

About the Author

Jason Dittmer is Reader in Human Geography at University College London. He is the author of Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity and coeditor (with Tristan Sturm) of Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions.

On The Comics Grid, Jason has published “A Map of Hicksville” (5 September 2011).

You can buy this book directly from Temple University Press, here.

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