<i>Ms. Marvel</i>: transnational superhero iconography

Coming from the perspective of World Literature Studies, this essay views Ms. Marvel series as post-9/11 Muslim-American work whose iconography is deeply transnational. Situated in what Alexander Beecroft termed national literary ecology, contains strong features anthropologist Ulf Hannerz called ‘transnational connections.’ built, at its core, around problematic superhero relation to gender and ethno-religious identity, particular reductive stereotypes Muslim identity USA. I argue that Marvel’s transnational character arises a dynamic oscillation between location American ecology an orientation globalised form Islamic culture. The comic hybridises with ethos her heritage such creates rich image-text vies for place developing global literature.