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Ambiguities of European Comic-book Bikers: Navigating the Twists and Turns

Ambiguities of European Comic-book Bikers: Navigating the Twists and Turns

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1666965367
ISBN13: 9781666965360
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 20 2024
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this book, David Walton explores European comic-book biker publications as a subgenre of popular culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, he reveals an intricate amalgam of ingenuity, irony, and highly ambiguous humor. The creative resourcefulness of the comic-book biker authors is seen to dramatize and celebrate the material existence of motorcycles and lifestyles while laughing at the foibles, inconsistencies, manias, fantasies, and practices of those characterised as motorized flâneurs. At the core of Walton's analysis is the exploration of identity formation, marked by tensions between individualism and collective affinities, undermined by egoism and competitiveness.

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