Liberal thrillers displace Muslim marginalization onto white protagonists.

Evidence

These writers rehearse the precarious position of the outsider, or homo sacer, who already exists on the periphery and is vulnerable to the full force of securitization and exclusion. However, they also tend to displace experiences of marginalization from Muslims to white, non-Muslim protagonists, suggesting a discomfort with conveying culturally different experience in their novels. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 68

In the liberal thrillers examined in chapter 5, John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan are concerned to contest those states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects as their citizenship was called into question and their ability to move across borders was curtailed. These writers rehearse the precarious position of the outsider, or homo sacer, who already exists on the periphery and is vulnerable to the full force of securitization and exclusion. However, they also tend to displace experiences of marginalization from Muslims to white, non-Muslim protagonists, suggesting a discomfort with conveying culturally different experience in their novels. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Invokes homo sacer (Agamben’s figure of bare life) as the analytic term for the outsider vulnerable to securitization.
• QUESTION: Does Naqvi’s Home Boy commit the same displacement — making its narrator a Pakistani immigrant who reads as ‘not quite’ the marginalized Muslim — or does it avoid it? Sharp question for the reader’s own argument.
• XREF: The displacement move directly informs the reader’s hinge question — a way fiction contests Islamophobia while quietly reinforcing it, exactly the analysis sought for Naqvi and Hamid. — connects to: Liberal thrillers contest states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects.; Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference.; Liberal novels often center non-Muslim protagonists in Islamophobia stories — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 355 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 68

Broader Connections

• Liberal novels often center non-Muslim protagonists in Islamophobia stories #corroborates (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 355
• Liberal thrillers contest states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Contrived liberal endings encode postimperial white paternal fantasies. #complicates (0.60)
• Liberal reading habits themselves can fabricate Muslim difference #complicates (0.55)
• Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference. #qualifies (0.50)
• Fiction can reinforce racial stereotypes even while nominally condemning extremism #complicates (0.50)