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Placing Ms. Marvel and Dust: Marvel Comics, the New York Metro Area, and the "Muslim Problem"
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Society, Culture and Identity (SKI).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7680-9402
2020 (English)In: No Normal: Ms. Marvel's America / [ed] Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020, p. 21-44Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The US has historically had trouble with ethnoracial formation, tensions having often boiled over when public awareness of various immigrant groups reached critical mass. Post-9/11, Muslims became the latest such “problem.” This “Muslim problem” is hotly debated in US comics culture. This chapter looks at Dust and Ms. Marvel, two post-9/11 Marvel Muslim superheroines, to show how Marvel has attempted corrective representations of Muslims and how these characters can be said to perpetuate or complicate Muslim stereotypes. Comics’ urban representations are never merely mimetic of material space, but always symbolic, selective, and ideologically informed narrative and graphic montages: a comic’s claim to real-world space is necessarily normative, taking existing spaces, and recreating it in ways that say who belongs there. This chapter focuses on how Dust and Ms. Marvel are figured in relation to New York City and its surroundings, and what that says about Muslims’ imagined right to the city. 

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Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020. p. 21-44
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comics, comic books, superheroes, Islam, New York City, Ms. Marvel
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Cultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-13688DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496827029.003.0003ISI: 000579264400003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105020216411ISBN: 9781496827012 (print)ISBN: 9781496827029 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-13688DiVA, id: diva2:1411162
Available from: 2020-03-03 Created: 2020-03-03 Last updated: 2025-11-10Bibliographically approved

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