Islamophobia is a fractured, contradictory discourse rather than a unified monolith

Evidence

Islamophobia is often seen as a unified, monolithic discourse that is actively imposed on passive objects. However, it is actually a discourse riven with anxieties and contradictions. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 72

Most of all, art—at its most ambitious—can expose Islamophobia for the thing of shreds and patches that it is. Islamophobia is often seen as a unified, monolithic discourse that is actively imposed on passive objects. However, it is actually a discourse riven with anxieties and contradictions. This book seeks out those instances where the discourses of Islamophobia, as dramatized and played out in contemporary novels, find themselves exposed as the conflicted and uncertain formations they actually are. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 72

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core corrective definition: Islamophobia as internally conflicted rather than monolithic — the interpretive lens for distinguishing contesting from reinforcing novels.
• XREF: Feeds directly into the reader’s hinge project — this is the critical vocabulary for judging whether Hamid and Naqvi expose vs. reproduce the discourse. — connects to: Think tanks, academia, and media institutions jointly produce Islamophobia; Defining Islamophobia matters only insofar as it enables systematic comparison. — Erik Bleich, What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is…, 60; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 72