Beschreibung:
Marks a major new contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy and authority.
Introduction1. Legitimacy and the good2. Defending freedom3. Law and violence4. Friend and enemy5. States of emergency and bare life6. Kinship7. Sovereignty at the limit8. Sovereign imaginationIndex