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- Title
Appropriate(d) Cyborgs: Diasporic Identities in Dwayne McDuffie's "Deathlok" Comic Book Series.
- Authors
Rivera, Lysa
- Abstract
This essay focuses on identity in the comic book series "Deathlok" by Dwayne McDuffie. Critic Frantz Fanon's critique of comic books that portray villains as black and heroes as white is discussed, particularly his analysis of the "Tarzan" comics to demonstrate how comics propagate racism. "Deathlok" originally was published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1974 but in 1990 McDuffie and others revitalized the comic by transforming the series' struggle into one in which the main character, once he is transformed into a cyborg, suffers an identity crisis. There are, the author argues, several ways in which the comic is a revisionist story by recognizing the relationship between the cyborg body and African American diaspora and the dehumanization of the body.
- Subjects
DEATHLOK (Book); MCDUFFIE, Dwayne; AFRICAN Americans in literature; FANON, Frantz, 1925-1961; RACE in literature; GRAPHIC novels; CYBORGS in literature
- Publication
MELUS, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 3, p103
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/melus/32.3.103