The Post-Colonial Enterprise of Trillium: Maps, Language, Histories, and Multilateral Consciousness

This chapter examines Jeff Lemire's Trillium (2014) which, like many time travel narratives, reflects ideas of colonialism in the appropriation of territory and time by future scientist, Nika and British explorer Billy's respective cultures. The paper uses postcolonial theories of writers such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frantz Fanon and bel hooks to draw parallels between colonial discourses of mapping and language in European voyages of discovery of the 16-20th centuries with that of the cultures of the British Empire and the future remnants of humanity. In his comments on mapping, language and communication, Lemire shows how language and histories are tools of aggression against the Atabithians. Lemire, therefore, proposes alternate reading practices, histories and social orders by playing with the comic form, language and spatiality. In doing so he destablises reader's commonsense perceptions of realism, time and history

Cold War Fantasies: Testing the Limits of the Familial Body

In this collection of new essays, each examines a specific period or storyline from Wonder Woman comic books and analyzes that story in regard to contemporary issues in American society

'Just the lemon next to the pie': Apocalypse, History and the Limits of Myth in Big Wednesday (1978)

This article examines the seminal surf film, Big Wednesday. This film tells the story of American involvement in Vietnam through the lens of surf culture. The film illustrates the conflicting values of three surfing friends and how they drift apart through their disparate attitudes towards the Vietnam conflict. The end of the film demonstrates the power of the waves to bring them together in one last bond of friendship. The analysis dwells upon director, John Milius's use of space and time in the mythmaking process of surfer identities. I develop Fiske's ideas of the beach as a liminal site of transgression and the implications this has for space and the surfer body

Bodies in Wonder Woman of the 1990s: Good Girls Bad Girls and Macho Men

How the incredible heroine has evolved and shaped television, film, comic books, and literatur