“Flesh-to-Flesh Contact”: Marvel Comics’ Rogue and the Queer Feminist Imagination

The X-Men’s Rogue’s ability to absorb the powers and personality of others through “flesh-to-flesh contact” presents an affective figure for the queer potential of the X-Men’s metaphor of mutancy as difference. Close readings of Rogue’s first appearance, #10, and the end of her first major character...

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Published in:American literature 2018-06, Vol.90 (2), p.251-281
Main Author: D’Agostino, Anthony Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comics
Cultural Studies
Feminism
Gays & lesbians
Gender and Sexuality
LGBTQ Studies
Literature and Literary Studies
Men
Metaphor
Personality
Politics
Superheroes
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Summary:The X-Men’s Rogue’s ability to absorb the powers and personality of others through “flesh-to-flesh contact” presents an affective figure for the queer potential of the X-Men’s metaphor of mutancy as difference. Close readings of Rogue’s first appearance, #10, and the end of her first major character arc, #185, reveal that this affective figure for queerness is variable and derived from X-Men writer Chris Claremont’s ongoing engagement with feminist politics and theory.
ISSN:0002-9831
1527-2117
DOI:10.1215/00029831-4564298