"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.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
"What Will They Do With the Power They Do Have to Make the World Livable for Those Without It?"
Labels:
2010s,
cultural history,
literature,
movies,
race and ethnicity,
twentieth century,
twenty-first century
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