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American queeroes: coming-out narratives in the Captain America fandom
Comparative American Studies An International Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2020.1720405
Sarah E. Beyvers 1 , Florian Zitzelsberger 2
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ABSTRACT This article examines three Captain America fanfictions that imagine the eponymous hero’s cinematic representation as queer in an effort to gauge the impact of a queer Captain America on U.S. society and culture. At the same time, these texts scrutinise the public perception of heroes as agents of heteronormativity, as heterosexual subjects, and objects of a heterosexual gaze, through the incorporation of (social) media responses in their fictional microcosms. Moving beyond the reductive equation of heroic masculinity and heterosexuality, the analysed texts open up more inclusive discourses of desire, disclosure, and dissent by following the coming-out stories of their heroes. The virtual spaces of fandom are put into conversation with the closet, which renders private, and possibly queer, identities invisible, and coming out as an act of publicly (re)gaining agency and self-determinacy. The article offers a queer reading of one of Marvel’s most beloved characters by reassessing the Captain America films and laying bare the constructedness of hetero-heroism that structures and motivates the films’ narratives. American queeroes in fanfiction are thus not just fantasies – they constitute reactions to and efforts against the oppressive framework of heteronormativity which obscures and limits the potential queerness of characters in mass media representations.

中文翻译:

美国怪人:在美国队长同人圈中的崭新叙述

摘要本文考察了三位美国队长的虚构作品,这些虚构人物将同名英雄的电影形象想象为酷儿,以评估酷儿美国队长对美国社会和文化的影响。同时,这些文本通过将(社会)媒体反应纳入他们的虚构缩影中,审查了公众对英雄作为异性规范主体,异性主体和异性凝视对象的看法。超越了英雄气概和异性恋的简化方程式,经过分析的文本通过追随英雄故事的出现,开辟了更多包含性的欲望,披露和异议的论述。狂热的虚拟空间与壁橱进行对话,从而使私人身份(可能是奇怪的身份)不可见,并以公开(重新)获得代理权和自决权的形式出现。通过重新评估《美国队长》电影并揭露异质英雄主义的结构性,这些异端英雄主义构造并激发了电影的叙事,从而使读者对Marvel最受欢迎的角色之一产生了奇怪的理解。因此,美国幻想小说中的怪异对象不仅是幻想,它们还构成了对异规范性压迫性框架的反应和反对,该框架抑制并限制了大众媒体中人物形象的潜在奇特性。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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