History invents phantasms — fantasies attached to Muslim bodies — that remain powerful

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• Even failed portrayals of Muslim extremism expose the West’s own comforting fairytales (similarity 0.85)
• Power invents phantasms attached to Muslim bodies to control them (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.82)
• Medieval writers classified Muslim followers as monstrous races and devil minions. (similarity 0.82)
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.81)
• Fiction contests Islamophobia either by direct Islamic subjectivity or by oblique readerly defamiliarization. (similarity 0.81)
• Crusade-era rhetoric called Muslims an accursed race utterly alienated from God. (similarity 0.81)
• Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model (similarity 0.81)
• Individual Muslim writers are not trapped by the interpretive frame that dominates their reception (similarity 0.81)
• A Muslim character’s refusal to explain can be a political contestation, not mere rigidity (similarity 0.81)
• The native-informer dynamic lets writers simultaneously acknowledge and deny their Muslim origins (similarity 0.81)
• Modern Muslim monsters rest on medieval fantasies (similarity 0.80)
• The authentic Muslim monsters in early cinema are grotesque, subhuman figures. (similarity 0.80)
• The monster image of Islam persists because it was a self-serving fantasy (similarity 0.80)