Liberal-humanist endings depend on converting the threatening Other.

Evidence

Even then, both novels manage to concoct endings characterized by a sort of default-setting liberal wish fulfillment in which the forces of death and disorder are vanquished and the threat from the irrational negated. In both texts, acts of reading (and misreading)—of critical interpretation—are central to the resolution of the plot. For the satisfactory triumph of their endorsed value systems, both depend on the “conversion” of the threatening Other, and yet, at the same time, the faith displayed by characters is always haunted by its flipside, doubt. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 85

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Liberal humanist fiction erases Muslim difference by staging conversion through canonical English verse (similarity 0.85)
• Contrived novel endings expose strain in defending liberal humanist values (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal thrillers can reinforce Islamophobia by refusing to narrate Muslim interiority (similarity 0.82)
• A liberal-humanist stance toward novels can itself smuggle in Islamophobic assumptions (similarity 0.81)
• A novel contesting Islamophobia can still quietly reinforce liberal-manichean binaries in its characterization. (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal thrillers displace Muslim marginalization onto white protagonists. (similarity 0.81)
• Even benign literary-humanist gestures can align with Islamophobic civilizational rhetoric (similarity 0.81)
• The liberal novel can only gesture obliquely at tensions it cannot resolve. (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia in literature can reside in universalist reading practices rather than overt denunciation (similarity 0.79)
• The liberal novel reaches a boundary in accommodating Islamic political identity claims. (similarity 0.79)
• Liberal novelists cast literature itself as a core Western value threatened by Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference. (similarity 0.79)
• The thriller’s inherent clash of ideologies enables dialogic critique rather than automatic conservatism (similarity 0.79)
• Contrived liberal endings encode postimperial white paternal fantasies. (similarity 0.79)
• Denying any need to understand terrorists collapses the crucial separation of Islamists from Muslims (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A liberal-humanist stance toward novels can itself smuggle in Islamophobic assumptions #expands (0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 239
• Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference. #contradicts (0.55) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 315
• Liberal thrillers contest states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects. #contradicts (0.50) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 68