I wasn’t especially into comic books as a kid, but I’ve been a voracious consumer of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies and television. In 2011, I was struck by a piece of dialogue from Captain America: The First Avenger that seemed to reveal the regressive state-focused politics at the heart of the film. In fact,…
Category: Television
Light, Darkness, and Slavery
A couple of years ago, I read Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and was struck by its use of magical realism to portray the darkness of slavery and, as Whitehead articulated, “the truth of things, not the facts.” To be honest, I do think there’s some danger in fictional interpretation being understood as fact. At…