Ms. Marvel's America

<p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>