Go, Read: Weldon, Evanier On Batman’s Gay Subtext

Here are Glen Weldon and Mark Evanier on the subject of Batman's gay subtext. As Weldon presents it the subtext is as important as its own thing, in addition to be a component of how folks might want to negotiate the cultural value of the character in its entirety.

One thing I think is interesting here is the basic split between approaches: the idea of authorial intention and reader interpretation. The latter gets a different spin than you might say in many cases of text analysis because the character exists in a way that runs parallel to his employment as a narrative tool, and fan appropriation likely works far differently than more straight-forward interpretations of text.
 
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