Literature, drama, art, and cinema sustain a habitus about Islam built on Muslim monsters

Evidence

It is a somewhat curious truism that the novel, that preeminent vehicle for the dissection of individual human experience, should, when it comes to texts by Muslim writers, be suddenly seen to take on the qualities of a collectively representative document. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 510 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even non-terrorism shows define Muslim characters through violence — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 533; Muslim monster imagery survived into the eighteenth century in colonial-era literature.; Chronicles of Riddick dresses its monsters in undisguised Muslim prayer and architecture (+14 more)

Related

• Award-winning depictions of Muslim monsters are familiar, not exceptional, to Western audiences. (similarity 0.85)
• Norms of secular textual reading mark Muslims as deficient by unstated Western standards. (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim-authored novels are read as collective representative documents rather than individual explorations (similarity 0.82)
• Literature, drama, art, and cinema sustained an internalized anti-Muslim habitus across centuries. (similarity 0.81)
• Cinema is now the primary generator of Muslim monster imagery in America (similarity 0.81)
• A global literary market for Muslim writing constrains how novels contest Islamophobia. (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural fields like literature and art sustain internalized social dispositions producing Muslim monsters (similarity 0.80)
• Literature functions as a technology sanctifying Western modernity against the Muslim Other (similarity 0.80)
• Novels contesting Islamophobia are enmeshed in the very market that trades on it (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Islamophobia novels can themselves profit from trading in Muslim stereotypes. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Muslim monsters were assembled from classical, biblical, and ethnic-other sources (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia includes a latent assumption of Muslim cultural inferiority to the secular West. (similarity 0.79)
• Fiction contests Islamophobia either by direct Islamic subjectivity or by oblique readerly defamiliarization. (similarity 0.79)
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia in literature can reside in universalist reading practices rather than overt denunciation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Literature functions as one of the technologies that constructs the Muslim as aberration. #expands (0.70)
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences #contradicts (0.60)
• Muslim-authored novels are read as collective representative documents rather than individual explorations #expands (0.55) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 510
• Islamophobia operates as a marketable commodity across media forms #expands (0.50) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 354