“Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination

• Anthony Michael D'Agostino ^[1]
  1. [1] Fordham University

     Fordham University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: American literature: A journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography, ISSN 0002-9831, Vol. 90, Nº 2, 2018, págs. 251-281
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The X-Men’s Rogue’s ability to absorb the powers and personality of others through “flesh-to-flesh contact” presents an affective figure for the queer potential of the X-Men’s metaphor of mutancy as difference. Close readings of Rogue’s first appearance, Avengers Annual #10, and the end of her first major character arc, Uncanny X-Men #185, reveal that this affective figure for queerness is variable and derived from X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s ongoing engagement with feminist politics and theory.