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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Hero Me Not</span>: <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Superhero</span><br role="presentation"></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">CHESYA BURKE</span><br></font></div><div>Rutgers University Press 2023<br></div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">"Hits hard at the tough questions. Deeply thought</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">-</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">provoking!"</span><br role="presentation"></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">--</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">N.K. Jemisin, author of The Inheritance Trilogy</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">First introduced in the pages of</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">X</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">-</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Men</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">, Storm is probably the most recognized</span><br role="presentation"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the</span><br role="presentation"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Marvel Universe, with abilities that allow her to control the weather itself. Yet that</span><br role="presentation"></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">power is almost always deployed in the servic</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">e of White characters, and Storm is</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">rarely treated as an authority figure.</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Hero Me Not</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">offers an in</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">-</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">depth look at this fascinating yet often frustrating character through all her</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">manifestations in comics, animation, and films. Chesya Burke examines the</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">coding of Storm as racially</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“exotic,” an African woman who nonetheless has bright white hair and blue eyes and was portrayed onscreen</span><br role="presentation"></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">by biracial actresses Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp. She shows how Storm, created by White writers and</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">artists, was an a</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">malgam of various Black stereotypes, from the Mammy and the Jezebel to the Magical</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Negro, resulting in a new stereotype she terms the Negro Spiritual Woman.</span> <br></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">With chapters focusing on the history, transmedia representation, and racial politics of Storm,</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Burke offers a</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">very personal account of what it means to be a Black female comics fan searching popular culture for</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">positive images of powerful women who look like you.</span></font></div><div><br role="presentation"></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">CHESYA BURKE</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">is an assistant professor of English and U.S. literatures and Director o</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">f Africana studies at</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Stetson University. Her story collection,</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Let’s Play White</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">, is being taught in universities around the world.</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Publishing</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">A</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">pril</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">202</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">3</span><br role="presentation"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Paperback | $</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">27</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">.95 |</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">97819788</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">21057</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">|</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">1</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">62</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">pages,</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">21 color</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">images | 6 x 9</span><br role="presentation"></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Cloth and e</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">-</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">book</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">available</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Please email requests for review copies to <a href="mailto:publicity@rutgersuniversitypress.org">publicity@rutgersuniversitypress.org</a> and be sure to include the</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">title, author, ISBN number, as well as the address of the person to whom the book should be sent.</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Rutgersuniversitypress</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">.org</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“For the creators behind modern myths this is a necessary interrogation of what matters on the page and in</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">the real world. For readers, this is a deep dive into why these stories appeal to us and</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">how they challenge</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">dominant narratives. Burke's</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Hero Me Not</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">reminds us all that diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality are</span> <span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">more than buzz words or jargon. The stories we tell, the stories we consume matter on every level.”</span><br role="presentation"><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">—</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism: Note</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif" role="presentation" dir="ltr">s from the Women That a Movement Forgot</span></font>
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