Contrapuntal reading risks disembodied utopianism about power.

Evidence

As valuable as such projects may be, however, they run the risk of a kind of disembodied utopianism, relying on an ability to be somehow on the outside looking in at a world riven by power imbalances and injustice. We may feel that such moral high ground is a long way off as we struggle with everyday situations that position us in networks of power among which we grope uncertainly, our own small-scale local negotiations presenting themselves as more pressing. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the standing critique of cosmopolitan reading positions in Spivak-based ethics — relevant to whether Hamid’s Changez addresses the reader from a position that itself reproduces power assumptions.