Genre systems reveal the dominant ideology of their era

Evidence

Tzvetan Todorov makes explicit the link between genres and ideologies when he writes that “each era has its own system of genres, which is in relation with the dominant ideology etc. Genres, like any other institution, reveal the constitutive traits of the society to which they belong” (“The Origin of Genres,” New Literary History, Autumn 1976, 163). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 720

Tzvetan Todorov makes explicit the link between genres and ideologies when he writes that “each era has its own system of genres, which is in relation with the dominant ideology etc. Genres, like any other institution, reveal the constitutive traits of the society to which they belong” (“The Origin of Genres,” New Literary History, Autumn 1976, 163). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 720

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides the theoretical warrant for treating genre itself as ideological evidence — a tool for distinguishing fiction that contests vs. reinforces Islamophobia.
• XREF: This is your hinge concept: it lets you argue that The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy work against the genre expectations that misery memoirs and thriller plots encode. — connects to: Formal sedimentation names genres as layered deposits of past ideology — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3243
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 720