Authorial cosmopolitan status shapes what a novel can critique

Evidence

The particular self-consciousness at work in The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a product of its position as a commodity in a market: the kind of market it otherwise critiques. Yet I would argue that it is also a result of Hamid’s own status as a cosmopolitan author and what is expected of him within that role. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 452

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the ‘mediator of Pakistan to the West’ role that circumscribes cosmopolitan authors’ critique.
• XREF: Directly relevant to Naqvi’s Home Boy and its author’s positioning as another cosmopolitan Pakistani voice.