Revise/Reboot: Retcons and the Modernist Restructuring of History in Superhero Comics

In modernist literature, traditional notions of history are famously subject to interrogation. Driven in part by a general post–World War I disillusionment, many modernist authors understood history not as a static thing, but as a concept to be re-examined and reworked. These writers often reconfigured the past in their writing as a means of recontextualizing the present in