For instance, Kamala wears a South Asian dupatta, when praying in the mosque.
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In both the comic and TV series, Kamala’s representation of Islam is primarily a South Asian one. Their work was also unfolding in the charged post-9/11 climate when representations of Muslims, while gaining some nuance, have also reiterated long-standing orientalist stereotypes – and Islamophobes framed debates that questioned the compatibility of Islam with the West. Marvel would face high expectations: “ traditional Muslims might want her to be more modest, and secular Muslims might want her to be less so.” As The New Yorker reports, Amanat and Wilson knew that as a breakthrough Muslim superhero, Ms. Wilson wrote Kamala so beautifully that her struggles appealed to a large audience. Willow Wilson, a white American convert to Islam. Marvel’s success to the comic series’ co-creator and editor, Sana Amanat, a Pakistani American Muslim, and its first writer, G. In the show, her powers are unlocked after she puts on her grandmother’s bangle. In the comics, this happens after she comes into contact with a mist that induces genetic mutation. Kamala, played by Iman Vellani, is a regular Pakistani American Muslim teen who transforms into a superhero.
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