A novel’s chosen genre can encode political conservatism regardless of authorial intent

Evidence

Put simply, one might say that the satirical social comedy form, of which The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album are preeminent examples, inscribes a conservatism that is not only uninterested in rendering the motivations and solidarities of the Riaz group but also actively hostile to them precisely because they are inherently collective. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 181

Categorization

• XREF: This is the formal mechanism deliverable the reader wants: genre itself (satirical social comedy) makes a work conservative by refusing collective interiority — a criterion to test against Naqvi’s comic voice in Home Boy.
• SEED: Could scaffold an argument: form-level contestation vs reinforcement — comedy refuses to render collectives human, whatever the author declares.