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Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal Hardback Edition
Contributor(s): Baldanzi, Jessica (Editor), Rashid, Hussein (Editor)
ISBN: 1496827023     ISBN-13: 9781496827029
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $108.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 741.59
LCCN: 2019034315
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.28 lbs) 280 pages
 
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Contributions by José 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.