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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Visual Grammar of Citizenship -- 1. "Impussanations," Coons, and Civic Ideals: A Black Comics Aesthetic -- 2. The Revolutionary Body: Nat Turner, King, and Frozen Subjection -- 3. Wearing Hero- Face: Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White & Black -- 4. "The Only Thing Unamerican about Me Is the Treatment I Get!" Infantile Citizenship and the Situational Grotesque -- 5. Rape and Race in the Gutter: Equal Opportunity Humor Aesthetics and Underground Comix -- To Caricature, with Love: A Black Panther Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Because scholars have paid insufficient attention to race in fan studies, a new genealogy of fan studies is needed, one that includes different kinds of primary and secondary texts that have explored responses of black fans. There is a rich history of black fan criticism and acafandom that has never been seen as such but that both complements and complicates current definitions and paradigms in fan studies. Discussions of fan otherness, antifandom, and fan ambivalence explore the difference that the inclusion of African American cultural criticism would make to both canonical scholarship and more recently published work in the field.

rebecca wanzo is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University. She is currently completing a book manuscript about sentimental political storytelling in the United States forthcoming from suny Press.

Saving Shoshana : an introduction to sentimental political storytelling -- Incidents in the life of a (volunteer) slave girl : the specter of slavery and escapes from history -- The reading cure : Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and sentimental identification -- Salvation in his arms : rape, race, and intimacy's salve -- In the shadow of Anarcha : race, pain, and medical storytelling -- The abduction will not be televised : suffering hierarchies, simple stories, and the logic of child protection in the United States -- Coda : lifetime, anyone? : a meditation on victims

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: -- Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World -- 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney's Star Wars -- 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination -- 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times -- 4 Family Sitcoms' Political Front -- 5 "To Hell with Dreams": Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season -- Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change -- 6 Imagining Intersectionality: -- 7 Code for What -- 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay -- 9 Everyone Wants Peace? -- Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents -- 10 Learning to Imagine Better: -- 11 Black Girls Are from the Future: -- 12 "Dance to the Distortion": -- 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past: -- 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: -- 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity -- 16 DIY VR: -- Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own -- 17 Training Activists to Be Fans: -- 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media: -- 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back: -- 20 For the Horde: -- 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts: -- 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service -- Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community -- 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, "Born in the USA" Goes My Indian Heart? -- 24 "Our" Hamilton: -- 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York -- 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition -- Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places -- 27 "Without My City, Where Is My Past?" -- 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South -- 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing: -- 30 What's Civic about Aztlán? -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors