A global literary market for Muslim writers shapes what can be written

Evidence

Nonetheless, we will see that both The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Minaret face similar challenges in terms of negotiating their place in what we might call a literary “market for the Muslim.” This global market is both a commercial one, in the case of Hamid’s text, and, for Aboulela’s novel, a critical market for interpreting the Muslim writer that maps onto prevailing orthodoxies about how secular modernity is the defining feature of a West that has evolved beyond the irrational consolations of religion. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s concern with using Hamid and Naqvi as evidence — the market conditions they write within
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this market constraint differ between Hamid’s commercial success and Aboulela’s critical reception?
• SEED: Angles into how Home Boy’s reception was shaped by this market for the Muslim writer