Aquaman and the War Against Oceans Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene - Encapsulations

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.                Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the "human" and "humanism" and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

ISBN:	9781496225856
Publisher:	Nebraska
Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Published date:	01 Nov 2022
DEWEY:	741.5973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	268
Weight:	295g
Height:	203mm
Width:	127mm
Spine width:	15mm

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