Sunday, February 25, 2018

"What Will They Do With the Power They Do Have to Make the World Livable for Those Without It?"

"The basic premise of a superpowered king fighting crime in a futuristic feline-themed suit is the kind of fresh-off-the-panel action absurdity that marks today's comic-book movies. But, on a deeper level, the fictional African nation of Wakanda is the same Atlantean archetype that has always haunted this diaspora. And like all variations on that archetypal story, Black Panther is a fantasy about black power."

Vann R. Newkirk II at The Atlantic thinks about Disney's Black Panther.

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