Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in The Jaguar
Beauty and Her B(r)east(s): Monstrosity and College Women in The Jaguar
This chapter shows how idealized foreign, exotic female characters become monstrous in comics. Specifically, in their reading of The Jaguar, the authors of this chapter examine the ways ethnicity, female sexuality, and language mark the identity of Maria/The Jaguar as bestial and thus, position her as monstrous in ways that undermine her performance as a hero. Further, this chapter explores how a social role fraught with so much contradiction—both beast and hero—can reveal the lived complexity of navigating college campuses for real-world international students.
Keywords: The Jaguar, female sexuality, ethnicity, higher education, exoticization
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