[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA e-book review: Ms. Marvel's America : No Normal

[Mike Rhode]

And the book is taken already, thank you.

Mike

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:05 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Open world-wide.  Email me directly at mrhode at gmail.com
>
> Mike Rhode
> IJOCA editor of some sort
>
> Ms. Marvel's America : No Normal
> Edited by Jessica Baldanzi
> <https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/B/Baldanzi-Jessica> & Hussein
> Rashid <https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/R/Rashid-Hussein>
> *Hardcover :* 9781496827029, 280 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, February
> 2020
> *Paperback :* 9781496827012, 280 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, February
> 2020
>
> https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Ms.-Marvel-s-America
>
> An in-depth exploration of the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
> Description
>
> 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.
> Reviews
>
> Teenaged Pakistani American Kamala Khan, a. k.a. Ms. Marvel, is
> unapologetically Muslim in a low-key Jersey way. Ripe for interpreting,
> she's the superhero everyone wants to think with, whether the subject is US
> imperialism, Islam and gender, race and racism in America, or diversity in
> comics. This interdisciplinary collection, ably edited by Jessica Baldanzi
> and Hussein Rashid, is wide-ranging and very smart. I highly recommend it.
> - Kecia Ali, professor of religion at Boston University and author of
> Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and
> Jurisprudence
>
>
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