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Author: Safiyya Hosein, a Disney + TV show featuring Mr.
, a part-time lecturer on communication and culture at the University of Toronto Metropolitan. Marvel, also known as Kamala Khan, the first Muslim superheroine of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) released on June 8th.
Marvel in the comic series has been number one on the comic charts since her debut in 2014.
Pakistani-American teen Kamala is one of the most successful characters Marvel has announced in the last decade and has reached a large audience. The
show has been well received and Kamala's expression is groundbreaking, especially for South Asia, Muslims and racially differentiated fans.
Unfortunately, the show also had a backlash from racialists and sexual assailants in the form of "review bombers" on the Internet. People who are angry with Marvel's new identity, spamming the show with negative reviews.
Normal Pakistani-American Teen
Kamala, played by Iman Vellani, is a normal Pakistani-American Muslim teen who transforms into a superhero. .. In comics, this happens after she comes into contact with a fog that induces a genetic mutation. At her show, her power is unleashed after wearing her grandmother's bangle.
Viewers describe Marvel's success with Sana Amanato, a Pakistani-American Muslim who is co-creator and editor of the comic series, and G. Can be partially admitted to Willow Wilson. White Americans convert to Islam.
Wilson wrote Kamala so beautifully that her struggle appealed to a large audience. As New Yorker reports, Amanat and Wilson knew that as a groundbreaking Muslim superhero, Ms. Marvel faced high expectations.
Their work has also evolved into the charged climate after 9/11 when Muslim expressions gained some nuance and repeated long-standing orientalist stereotypes. rice field. West.
South Asian Muslim Culture
In both comic and television series, Kamala's Islamic expression is predominantly South. It's from Asia. For example, Kamala wears South Asian Dupatta when praying at the mosque. And the intergenerational trauma created by the partitions that led to the creation of Pakistan, a Muslim nation in South Asia, is the driving force behind the plot.
Characters spot conversations with Urdu phrases and words. Episode 1 shows Kamala and her mother shopping for an important ritual in the background of South Asia: a wedding. This event will be shown later in Episode 3.
In this episode, the audience will be provided with a fitting for shawlaarkameeze, a popular South Asian garment from Kamala. In this scene, another major piece of South Asian culture, the rumored aunt, debuts. South Asian music is also a regular feature of the show, and Marvel has posted links to soundtracks that include a mix of pop and digital tracks.
Support cast: Nani and Red Dagger
Enjoy the plot line of Kamala's Nani (motherhood), two characters from South Asia. (Grandmother played by Samina Ahmed) and Red Dagger, a Pakistani male superhero played by Aramis Knight.
Red Dagger is currently starring in a web comic with Ms. Marvel, mainly because popular Western media portray Muslim men as female oppressors rather than superheroes. It is important.
Break through the tired tropics
What does Kamala mean to South Asia, Muslims and racialized female fans after seeing her for a lifetime? I'm excited about her screen debut. Our own sparse or oriental expression.
After watching the first two episodes, journalist Unzela Khan feels that "everyday reality (except for the superpowers) is finally shared accurately and safely with the whole world." Said.
In an audience survey on the prototype of a Muslim superhero as part of her doctoral study, Marvel was a participant in various Muslim backgrounds. Showed enthusiasm to accept.
Respondents expressed relief in considering Kamala as a unique three-dimensional Muslim superhero in American comics. ..
They consider her "friendly" because she is involved in both the culture of her ancestors and the culture of America.
Especially South Asian Muslim participants not only embody many of their habits, but also represent her departure from the "Muslims are equal to the Middle East" depiction. I was excited about her. Black Muslim participants also expressed this last point.
Evacuation from stereotypes.
Most participants in my study welcomed Ms. Marvel as a refuge from Islamic hatred stereotypes, but Muslim superheroes reflected Islamic principles. The risk that this could adversely affect the Muslim community if it appears in a story that shows something that isn't.
Since the show began, some Muslim fans have been outraged by the exposure of Episode 3 that Kamala is Jin. According to the Islamic Encyclopedia, gin is a nick term for Qurי¾Ä applied to a body composed of steam and flame. Jin is generally understood as a supernatural being. Gin, filtered through a Western orientalist's lens, has become a staple of the orientalist's "genie" depiction.
It is a mysterious choice for many to use the orientalist metaphor while making the MCU's first Muslim superhero Jin, and now it is not possible to cosplay like her. Is saying. Kamala-as-djinn plot turns are not in the comics.
The turning point of the expression.
In my audience study, a young Indian Muslim woman found Kamala taking over Ms. Marvel's cloak from her blonde, blue-eyed predecessor, Carol Dunbars. I was excited to see it.
She said Kamala was special to young, brown, dark-skinned girls after her life when she didn't see them appearing in popular Western media. I said I would let you know.
Pakistani-American Muslim illustrator Anusha Sayed recently answered a question about Kamala's identity and tweeted about it. Hi. hello. It's mine. myself. A Pakistani Muslim girl who has literally never seen her appear in such media.
As the Marvel series currently records a positive rating of 96% on rotten tomatoes, we are at the tip of a turning point for Western Muslim representatives. I wonder if I'm in — especially for South Asian and Muslim girls.
In the past, some Halloween people dressed as Princess Jasmine, an orientalist Disney character. Along with Marvel and other super heroines, girls can choose from heroines.
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Safiyya Hosein conducted an audience study, funded by the RBC Immigration, Diversity and Comprehensive Project Awards at the University of Toronto Metropolitan University.
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