“Let’s rewrite some history, shall we?”: temporality and postfeminism in<i>Captain Marvel</i>’s comic book superhero(ine)ism

Superhero comics books’ reliance on revision has been discussed but the role of gender in relation to these concepts such is yet be explored. This paper examines first story arc Kelly Sue DeConnick’s acclaimed comic book series Captain Marvel (2012) through interrogative lens postfeminist culture, considering how past and present collided within relaunching popular superheroine Ms. (Carol Danvers) into Marvel. Simultaneously a postmodern pastiche contemporary mediation feminism, takes Danvers back, via time travel, periods before western second-wave feminist movement took hold. The article thus considers this storyline engages with issues as proliferation female superheroes well retroactive insertion discourses an ostensibly prefeminist setting, questioning what, if any, radical interventions i dominant modes women’s representations superhero narratives stories might offer.