+ info: University Press of Mississippi
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)
