Reading can become a proactive act that transforms both object and reader

Evidence

What does seem potentially useful is the idea of reading as proactive in situating itself—as well as the cultural commodities it examines—within networks of power. Reading is thus no longer a mode of passive reception or of reassembling known elements within an ideology that remains the unacknowledged norm. It becomes instead a mode of engaging with difference wherein critical practice transforms not only its object but itself, too. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines proactive reading that situates itself and its objects within power networks, transforming the reader as well.
• ADDENDUM: Supports how Your two novels can be read as engaging difference on their own non-Western-determined terms rather than as passive case studies.
• XREF: connects to: Landscape reading is a learned language that fosters intimacy with place — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 9; Reading transforms both its object and the reader when practiced critically — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396; Fictions act performatively to transform readers rather than merely represent reality — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 109 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Landscape reading is a learned language that fosters intimacy with place — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 9; Reading transforms both its object and the reader when practiced critically — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396; Fictions act performatively to transform readers rather than merely represent reality — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 109 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Reading transforms both its object and the reader when practiced critically #corroborates (0.98) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396
• Ordinary reading is a passive absorption governed by linear syntax #complicates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1196