Contests over Islamophobia unfold through movements across alien spaces.
Evidence
Characters are forever leaving their comfort zones and risking exposure by venturing into alien spaces. The working-class Sean in particular is struck by social anxiety induced by the spaces he has to enter to speak with the great and the good—for instance, being patronized by Paul at a Madison Avenue café populated by flunkies and hangers-on. He feels he is “a no-name worthy of addressing but not worthy of knowing. An audience not a player, unshaven in his Windbreaker because he hadn’t wanted to be late” (129). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 284
Categorization
- XREF: Furnishes a spatial ‘exposure’ lens — leaving comfort zones, venturing into alien spaces — to test how Hamid’s Changez and Naqvi’s narrator navigate Manhattan. — connects to: Elite-driven Islamophobia faces countervailing mass movements that can redirect public opinion.; Islamophobia is powered by the overlap of Muslims being both inside and outside; Islamophobia operates through spatial policing that restricts Muslim movement and daily life — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 263 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Elite-driven Islamophobia faces countervailing mass movements that can redirect public opinion.; Islamophobia is powered by the overlap of Muslims being both inside and outside; Islamophobia operates through spatial policing that restricts Muslim movement and daily life — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 263 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobia grows from convergence and proximity, not from cultural separation or polarization.
#complicates(0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 707