Dystopian fiction projects present migration and war onto the future

Evidence

In the novel, kinds of reading are also shaped by desire—the most urgent being Jack’s/Updike’s desire to save Ahmad and therefore replay (or re-read) 9/11, with a positive outcome this time. Jack’s job is to introduce doubt into Ahmad’s sealed faith. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 140 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dystopian future-terror is class-based fear of proletarianization and spatial loss — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 624; Science fiction uses the future to see its present, nostalgia uses the past — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 627; Fiction can replay historical trauma with a wished-for different outcome — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 140 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fiction can replay historical trauma with a wished-for different outcome #complicates (0.73) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 140