Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky,
Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron
Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir,
Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J.
Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more
diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor,
and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more
racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics
remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a
notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by
two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both
of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to
the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars
from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies,
religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a
single character, exploring Khan's significance for a broad
readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to
headline her own series, her character appears well-developed and
multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take
over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot
of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is
also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in
New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices
on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to
fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel
author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar
Shabana Mir.
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