Captain America isn't just another superhero: He embodies a national identity and geopolitical ideology. Or so says Jason Dittmer, co-editor of Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, in his new book, Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero. Cap, according to Dittmer, is the prototype of the "nationalist superhero," a comic-book subgenre that uses superheroics to validate the nation-state and vice versa. His rippling muscles and equally rippling sense of morality reflect and fuel the myth of American exceptionalism and justice.
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