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Overall, the collection presents a wide range of examinations of Ms. Marvel. In this manner, the essays provide ways to look at Kamala Khan and the series while the last two parts of the collection present teachers with ways to incorporate Ms. Marvel into the classroom and challenge the still-prevailing myth of comic book readers as solely white males. At the end of the collection, Shabana Mir's interview with G. Willow Wilson touches on the themes that the essays in the collection explore.--Matthew Teutsch International Journal of Comic Art 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

"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 Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal is a fantastic and necessary addition to any academic library, as well as college and university classrooms. Both undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from its interdisciplinary approach to research, which may inspire their own comic studies scholarship.--Victoria Rahbar ""ImageText Journal"" Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal, edited by Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid, is the first collection of criticism to take on, in an interdisciplinary way, the success and impact of Ms. Marvel. The book effectively makes the point that Kamala Khan and Ms. Marvel provide a rich ground for interpretation of America's relationship with Islam, gender, race, and diversity in mainstream comics.--Micheal Dittman ""Science Fiction Reaseach Association Review"" [Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal] plows the ground for a fertile new field of scholarship and opens up lanes of discourse for the continued discussion of the character and the reader's response to her.--Michael Dittman ""Science Fiction Research Association Review"" Overall, the collection presents a wide range of examinations of Ms. Marvel. In this manner, the essays provide ways to look at Kamala Khan and the series while the last two parts of the collection present teachers with ways to incorporate Ms. Marvel into the classroom and challenge the still-prevailing myth of comic book readers as solely white males. At the end of the collection, Shabana Mir's interview with G. Willow Wilson touches on the themes that the essays in the collection explore.--Matthew Teutsch ""International Journal of Comic Art"""

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Jessica Baldanzi is professor of English at Goshen College, where she teaches comics and graphic novels, as well as twentieth and twenty-first century American Literature, as well as media and popular culture. She coedited a Comics and Graphic Novels issue for the Center for Mennonite Writing Journal. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Genders, and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Hussein Rashid is contingent faculty member at The New School and founder of Islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency. His work has appeared in Muslim World, the Journal of Africana Religions, and the Oxford Handbook of American Islam, and he also served as the content lead for the Children's Museum of Manhattan's America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far exhibit.

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