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The Cuckoo Cage: AKA British Superheroes by Ra Page; Luan Goldie; Rhian E. Jones; Courttia Newland; Richard Sheldon; Yunis Alam; Richard Hingley; Peter Kalu; Niklas Frykman; Bidisha SK Mamata; Rose Wallis; Gaia Holmes; Chris Cocking; Lisa Luxx; Carl Griffin; Irfan Master; Karline Smith; Divya Ghelani; Avaes Mohammad is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Cuckoo Cage: AKA British Superheroes about?

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 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 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 food banks... these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared, centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors...

Author

Ra Page; Luan Goldie; Rhian E. Jones; Courttia Newland; Richard Sheldon; Yunis Alam; Richard Hingley; Peter Kalu; Niklas Frykman; Bidisha SK Mamata; Rose Wallis; Gaia Holmes; Chris Cocking; Lisa Luxx; Carl Griffin; Irfan Master; Karline Smith; Divya Ghelani; Avaes Mohammad

Publisher

Comma Publications

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781912697403

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities