@article{Andreassen_2019, title={Yes, We Khan: Diversity and De-Monsterization of Muslim Identities in ‘Ms. Marvel’ (2014–)}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5005}, DOI={10.7557/13.5005}, abstractNote={<p>In 2014, Marvel comics introduced a new character to take over the mantle of the superhero identity Ms. Marvel. The new heroine is <strong>Kamala Khan</strong>, a 16-year-old girl born and raised in New Jersey. Khan is Marvel’s first Pakistani-American, Muslim superhero to headline her own comic book; as such, she represents a move towards diversification in a historically conservative, white and masculine genre. In addition, Kamala Khan comes into existence in a political and social context where the 9/11 attacks, the ‘War on Terror’, and Islamophobia continue to reverberate. This article explores how the Ms. Marvel comic functions as a critique of the ways in which social norms, stereotypes and prejudices have monsterized multicultural, Muslim identities, especially in the years following 9/11. Conducting analyses of Khan’s conflicted relationship to her own identities and issues concerning visibility and concealment, I explore how these negative framings affect her self-perception, and in turn her self-representation. Lastly, I aim to illustrate the ways in which the comic challenges monolithic and monstrous representations of Islam through its depiction of diverse, multicultural, Muslim identities.</p>}, number={42}, journal={Nordlit}, author={Andreassen, Anja Borg}, year={2019}, month={Nov.}, pages={67–82} }