Global market language biases shape which Muslim-authored fiction circulates
Evidence
Equally, the English-language bias of my selection might seem to highlight the limitations of the paradigm. However, the circulation and hence reach of literary texts about Muslims and Islam are determined by a global market that is properly one of the main subjects of our story. This market has a strong bias toward majority Western languages, indicating the broader power structures that are in play. If the current book cannot in its own terms stand outside those structures, it may at least point to the skewed results they produce. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 61
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The market-shaped visibility argument bears on why Hamid and Naqvi (English-language) reached Western readers at all — a framing condition for using them as evidence.
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