Novels rejecting the burden of representation mirror Britain’s shift from multiculturalism to neoliberal individualism.

Evidence

We should be clear that multiculturalism was never an official policy in Britain: there was no British equivalent of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988, officially enshrining toleration of difference. However, inasmuch as recognition of the needs of minority groups came to affect civil society in Great Britain, it did so primarily in those areas where social provision—education, housing, and cultural activities—was in the gift of sympathetic local authorities. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 154 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• British multiculturalism operated through local authorities rather than national policy. (similarity 0.84)
• A novelist can celebrate multicultural living while rejecting multiculturalism as politics (similarity 0.81)
• Dismissing multiculturalism as political betrays that monoculture is political too (similarity 0.79)
• Multiculturalism has mutated into a market-friendly form bypassing social liberalism (similarity 0.79)
• British multicultural novels track the rise of a post-Thatcherite neoliberal outlook. (similarity 0.78)
• The receptivity to being called ‘representative’ colors how novels get judged as multicultural (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Contesting Islamophobia in the novels can inadvertently endorse neoliberal individualism over communal identity #corroborates (0.75)
• British multiculturalism operated through local authorities rather than national policy. #qualifies (0.70) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 154
• A novelist can celebrate multicultural living while rejecting multiculturalism as politics #qualifies (0.60)