A global literary market for Muslim writing constrains how novels contest Islamophobia.
Evidence
It is a somewhat curious truism that the novel, that preeminent vehicle for the dissection of individual human experience, should, when it comes to texts by Muslim writers, be suddenly seen to take on the qualities of a collectively representative document. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 510 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Publishing operates a racial economy of recognizable authorship — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 669; Novels contest Islamophobia by foregrounding characters’ internal divisions — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 792; Contesting Islamophobia in the novels can inadvertently endorse neoliberal individualism over communal identity (+14 more)
Related
- Muslim-authored novels are read as collective representative documents rather than individual explorations (similarity 0.87)
- Literature embedded in global markets may be unable to contest capitalism’s Islamophobia (similarity 0.86)
- Novels contesting Islamophobia are enmeshed in the very market that trades on it (similarity 0.86)
- Novels embedded in the global market can only signal, not escape, their own complicity. (similarity 0.84)
- Publishing operates a racial economy of recognizable authorship (similarity 0.83)
- A publishing market selects and rewards fiction that rehearses existing Muslim stereotypes (similarity 0.82)
- Global market language biases shape which Muslim-authored fiction circulates (similarity 0.82)
- Novels that critique Islamophobia still get co-opted by the market they critique. (similarity 0.82)
- Hamid’s punditry position as Muslim-world mediator shapes readings of his novel (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim athletes are read by non-Muslims as living substitutes for scripture (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-Islamophobia novels can themselves profit from trading in Muslim stereotypes. (similarity 0.82)
- A global literary market for Muslim writers shapes what can be written (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Islamophobic fiction is embedded in the very capitalist culture industry it contests (similarity 0.81)
- A market exists that rewards fiction reproducing existing views of Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
- Even distinguished literary novelists voice crude anti-Muslim prejudice (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Writerly background does not exempt Muslim authors from the constraints of the market frame
#expands(0.75) - Novels contest Islamophobia by foregrounding characters’ internal divisions
#expands(0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 792 - Muslim-authored novels are read as collective representative documents rather than individual explorations
#expands(0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 510 - A novel can undermine its own polyphonic argument by monolithically portraying Muslims.
#complicates(0.70) - Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model
#expands(0.65) - Anti-Islamophobic novels can still reproduce the stereotype of the oppressed Muslim woman
#complicates(0.65) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 292 - Contesting Islamophobia in the novels can inadvertently endorse neoliberal individualism over communal identity
#complicates(0.60) - Islamophobia operates as a marketable commodity across media forms
#expands(0.60) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 354