Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics

In this article, I read Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume 1 (2016) through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to challenge the superhero comics narrative convention of using violence as the sole means in a hero’s transcendent pursuit of justice. Deleuze...

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Autor: Bordun, Troy Michael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Affect
Gender stereotypes
Deleuze
Wonder Woman
Comics
Superheroine
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
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title Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
spellingShingle Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
Bordun, Troy Michael
Affect
Gender stereotypes
Deleuze
Wonder Woman
Comics
Superheroine
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
title_short Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
title_full Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
title_fullStr Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
title_full_unstemmed Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
title_sort Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman’s DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Affect
Gender stereotypes
Deleuze
Wonder Woman
Comics
Superheroine
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
topic Affect
Gender stereotypes
Deleuze
Wonder Woman
Comics
Superheroine
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
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