"Ele não é um de vocês": o herói revisionário e o medo do outro na romancização Man of Steel, de Greg Cox

Abstract

This research analyses the novelization Man of Steel (COX, 2013) as the rewriting of Superman’s mythology and a misreading of its poetic tradition, according to Klock (2002), and how these changes reveal structures of feelings (WILLIAMS, 1969). For this purpose, we discuss the stories and elements of that compose Superman’s mythological basis/tradition whilst a myth (BARTHES, 1998) or metatext (ZELLER-JACQUES, 2012) and their meanings in their contemporaneities. We also discuss the novelization, as a way of emotionally (re)experience a work, that presents different potentialities regarding its cinematographic counterpart. Our analysis is divided in parts, discussing the novelization’s misreadings, the messianic aspects of the narrative that approximate Superman of the figure of the other (SAID, 2003), and of the colonial perspectives, domination, and the fear of the other. Finally, we found that the reception of Superman changes through the years, from a symbol of hope to a symbol fear and that Man of Steel reveals a structure of feeling concerning the North-American fear of the other, the immigrant, that persists since the September 11th, 2001 attacks, besides the fear of losing its supremacy.