Among Them but Not One of Them: A Xenological Exploration of the Otherness and Power of DC Comics’ Superman
Among Them but Not One of Them: A Xenological Exploration of the Otherness and Power of DC Comics’ Superman
Author(s): Kwasu David TemboSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Xenology; Superman; Power; Identity; Otherness.
Summary/Abstract: With a view to exploring the relationship between DC Comics’ Super-man’s engagement with posthumanism and science fiction, as well as posthumanism and planetarity, this paper will provide an analysis of various xenological aspects of the character, as an uncanny alien, in order to explore a range of conclusions that can be drawn from my central hypothesis that Superman is a character that is simultaneously a representation of onto-existential familiarity as well as Otherness and power that ultimately disrupts anthropocentric and geocentric frames of reference.
Journal: Caietele Echinox
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 34
- Page Range: 181-199
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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