The Cuckoo Cage: New Origin Stories

The Cuckoo Cage: New Origin Stories
ISBN-10
191269767X
ISBN-13
9781912697670
Category
Fiction
Pages
352
Language
Arabic
Published
2022-02-17
Publisher
Comma Press
Authors
Courttia Newland, Gaia Holmes, Luan Goldie

Description

The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process. In this unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks... these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors...

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