Kite Runner reviews absorbed Bush-era War on Terror moral binaries.

Evidence

As Jefferess points out, “This rhetoric echoes … the West’s—and particularly George W. Bush’s—rhetoric of the so-called War on Terror: there are bad people in the world who deserve punishment” (“ ‘To Be Good (Again),’ ” 397). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 756

Categorization

• XREF: This is the exact hinge between fiction and dominant political discourse that Morey charts throughout — a novel’s narrative can reproduce, rather than contest, the punitive logic of the War on Terror.