Novels inscribe awareness of being misread as Muslim texts

Evidence

My interest is in exploring the extent to which these two texts acknowledge a need to find a form that not only conveys experience but also inscribes an awareness of how those experiences can be read (and misread) as a result of prevailing anthropological views of what a “Muslim text” can and should do. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 440

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crucial critical vocabulary: a text that anticipates its own misreading — a tool for distinguishing contesting from reinforcing
• SEED: Could ground an essay section on how The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Naqvi’s Home Boy self-consciously perform being misread