“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Agent 355 as an Original Black Female Hero in Y: The Last Man
@article{Mafe2015WeDN, title={“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Agent 355 as an Original Black Female Hero in Y: The Last Man}, author={Diana Adesola Mafe}, journal={African American Review}, year={2015}, volume={48}, pages={33 - 48} }
This article reads the comic-book series Y: The Last Man as a subversive articulation of critical race and feminist discourses despite the guise of Eurocentricity and the pretext of a white male “protagonist.” I argue that the true protagonist of the series is the black female character Agent 355, an unconventional hero who complicates stereotypical representations of race, gender, class, and so on. Despite a post-apocalyptic setting where the male species is largely extinct, 355 (rather than…
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