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Title Muslim superheroes : comics, Islam, and representation / edited by A. David Lewis and Martin Lund
Published Boston, Massachusetts : Ilex Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, [2017]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2017]
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Description vii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series The Mizan series ; 1
Mizan series ; 1
Contents Contents note continued: Truth, Justice, and the Spiritual Way: Imam Ali as Muslim Super-hero / Hussein Rashid -- From Book to Tool: Editorial Remarks / Martin Lund
Machine generated contents note: Whence the Muslim Superhero? / A. David Lewis -- Niqab not Burqa: Reading the Veil in Marvel's Dust / Nicholaus Pumphrey -- "And, erm, religious stuff: Islam, Liberalism, and the Limits of Tolerance in Stories of Faiza Hussain / Kevin Wanner -- Kamala Khan's Superhero Burkini: Negotiating an Autonomous Position between Patriarchal Islamism, French Secularism, and Feminism / Desiree Lorenz -- The Comics That Hate Produced: Representing the African-American Muslim Experience in DC Comics / Dwain C. Pruitt -- Marked by Foreign Policy: Muslim Superheroes and their Quest for Authenticity / Mercedes Yanora -- Superhero Comics from the Middle East: Tyranny of Genre? / Fredrik Stromberg -- Hero and/or Villain? The 99 and the Hybrid Nature of Popular Culture's Production of Islam / Ken Chitwood -- Qahera Here and There: Navigating Contexts in the Translation of a Muslim Egyptian Superheroine / Aymon Kreil --
Notes Publication and distribution dates from distributor's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Heroes -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Muslims in literature.
Superheroes in literature.
Superheroes -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Superheroes -- Islamic countries.
Author Lewis, A. David, 1977- editor
Lund, Martin, 1984- editor
LC no. 2017018467
ISBN 9780674975941