Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation (Mizan Series)

(Susanne Olsson)A nuanced and compelling analysis of the ways Muslim superheroes reflect and actualize the cultural and political tensions within and between the United States and the Muslim world. (Wajahat Ali)The anthology is not only a great academic contribution to this field but also a treat to read for anyone with an interest in comics or in the present tensions between Islamic and American cultures. (Todd Green) . David Lewis and Martin Lund explores the universal through the specificfocusing on Islam and Muslim fictional characters to illuminate the modern fault lines of identity, race, religion, national security, and politics. Essential reading for Islamic studies scholars, religious studies scholars, journalists, and policym

Muslim Superheroes investigates both intranational American racial formation and international American geopolitics, juxtaposed with social developments outside U.S. The roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. borders.Providing unprecedented depth to the study of Muslim superheroes, this collection analyzes, through a series of close readings and comparative studies, how Muslim and non-Muslim comics creators and critics have produced, reproduced, and represented different conceptions of Islam and Muslimness embodied in the genre characters.. Muslim Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and then nuanced scripting of Islamic protagonists in the American superhero comic book market and beyond.This scholarly anthology investigates the ways in which Muslim superhero characters fulfill, counter, or complicate Western stereotypes and navigate popular audience expectations globally, under the looming threat of Islamophobia. The contributors consider assumptions buried in the very notion of a character who is both a superhero and a Muslim with an interdisciplinary and international focus characteristic of both Islamic studies

A. David Lewis is a Faculty Member at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Online.Martin Lund is a Swedish Research Council International Postdoc at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate Center.

"Read all about it or DON'T" according to Pen Nameee. Very dissatisfied with the material. Wish I could get the time back I spent reading this p.o.s