Dominique Young Releases New Publication on Killmonger in 'Black Panther'

The article will be featured in Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness.

PhD candidate Dominique Young recently released a new publication, "'The Prince Will Now Have The Strength of The Black Panther Stripped Away’: Reading Disability and Queerness in Killmonger"  featured in the book Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness.

Dominique Young argues in Chapter 9 that the intersection of a Disability Studies and Black Feminist framework in Sami Schalk’s book Bodyminds Reimagined: (Di)sabilit), Race and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, and Cathy Cohen’s essays, “Deviance as Resistance” and “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens” allow us to read the character, Killmonger, as both a psychologically disabled and queer character. When analyzed through Schalk’s definition of bodymind and metaphor of disability, in the end, Young encourages readers to consider how Disability Studies and Black Feminism offer new ways of thinking about black masculinity and disability in the film.

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