‘Yo, Rag-Head!’ : Arab and Muslim Superheroes in American Comic Books after 9/11

• The relationship between the United States and the Arab/Muslim world has atic, to say the least, and it has left its mark on American popular culture in general in particular. A small number of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s about of Arabs and Muslims in American comics have shown a profusion of negative a conspicuous absence of Arab and/or Muslim heroes. This essay revisits this amines the ways in which Arabs and Muslims have been portrayed in the most genres—the superhero comic book—since the terrorist attacks of September to understand how these comics communicate ideas and representations of Eastern/Muslim' to American readers, this essay conducts a critical discourse on the idea of the 'Oriental Other.' After 9/11, the number of characters who Arab Muslims, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, both male and female, devout and zealous to the privately and nominally religious, has increased noticeably. such characters seem to have been created to resist stereotypical or racist configurations abs and/or Muslims as terrorists, they nonetheless partake in the 'Othering' of American public discourse through stereotypes in both visual and verbal communication, thus often unintentionally reinforce rather than counteract stereotypes 

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

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comics

Middle East

Arab

Muslim

superhero

the other

oriental other

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