Editing Superman (section)

===An allegory for immigrants===
Superman's immigrant status is a key aspect of his appeal.<ref>Fingeroth, Danny ''Superman on the Couch'' (2004). Continuum International Publishing Group p53. {{ISBN|0-8264-1539-3}}</ref><ref name="Engle">Engle, Gary "What Makes Superman So Darned American?" reprinted in ''Popular Culture'' (1992) Popular Press p&nbsp;331–343. {{ISBN|0-87972-572-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Wallace|first1=Daniel|first2=Bryan |last2=Singer |title=The Art of Superman Returns|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=2006|page=92|isbn=0-8118-5344-6}}</ref> Aldo Regalado saw the character as pushing the boundaries of acceptance in America. The extraterrestrial origin was seen by Regalado as challenging the notion that [[English Americans|Anglo-Saxon]] ancestry was the source of all might.<ref>{{cite book|first=Regalado|last= Aldo |chapter=Modernity, Race, and the American Superhero|editor-last= McLaughlin|editor-first= Jeff |title=Comics as Philosophy|year=2005|publisher=[[University of Mississippi]] Press|page=92|isbn=1-57806-794-4}}</ref> Gary Engle saw the "myth of Superman [asserting] with total confidence and a childlike innocence the value of the immigrant in [[Culture of the United States|American culture]]". He argues that Superman allowed the superhero genre to take over from the [[Western (genre)|Western]] as the expression of immigrant sensibilities. Through the use of a dual identity, Superman allowed immigrants to identify with both of their cultures. Clark Kent represents the assimilated individual, allowing Superman to express the immigrants' cultural heritage for the greater good.<ref name="Engle" /> David Jenemann has offered a contrasting view. He argues that Superman's early stories portray a threat: "the possibility that the exile would overwhelm the country".<ref>{{cite book|last=Jenemann|first=David|title=Adorno in America|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|year=2007|page=180|isbn=978-0-8166-4809-2}}</ref> David Rooney, a theater [[critic]] for ''The New York Times'', in his evaluation of the play ''Year Zero'' considers Superman to be the "quintessential immigrant story [...] [b]orn on an alien planet, he grows stronger on Earth, but maintains a secret identity tied to a homeland that continues to exert a powerful hold on him even as his every contact with those origins does him harm".<ref name="Rooney">{{cite news|last=Rooney |first=David |title=Finding America, Searching for Identity |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/theater/reviews/03year.html |access-date=June 11, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 3, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609111610/http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/theater/reviews/03year.html |archive-date=June 9, 2010 }}</ref>