{"title":"Castrating Superman: Rachel Pollack’s Transgender Mutant Cyborg Superhero in Doom Patrol","authors":"Péter Nagy","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0038","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that in her run on the serial DC comic Doom Patrol Rachel Pollack, transgender activist and science-fiction author, seizes on the figure of the mutant superhero to explore an affirmative account of transgender subjectivity. Pollack’s depiction of Coagula, one of the few transgender women to appear in mainstream comics, responds to concurrently emergent discourses about trans subjectivity, specifically the anti-identitarian formulations of gender, sexuality, and embodiment through which modern transgender studies countered the essentialist roots of antitrans feminism and began to radicalize understandings of gender subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0038","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay argues that in her run on the serial DC comic Doom Patrol Rachel Pollack, transgender activist and science-fiction author, seizes on the figure of the mutant superhero to explore an affirmative account of transgender subjectivity. Pollack’s depiction of Coagula, one of the few transgender women to appear in mainstream comics, responds to concurrently emergent discourses about trans subjectivity, specifically the anti-identitarian formulations of gender, sexuality, and embodiment through which modern transgender studies countered the essentialist roots of antitrans feminism and began to radicalize understandings of gender subjectivity.
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Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
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