Satirical social comedy form inscribes conservatism hostile to collective Muslim organizing

Evidence

Put simply, one might say that the satirical social comedy form, of which The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album are preeminent examples, inscribes a conservatism that is not only uninterested in rendering the motivations and solidarities of the Riaz group but also actively hostile to them precisely because they are inherently collective. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 181

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Directly gives the reader the contest-vs-reinforce distinction to test against Hamid and Naqvi — a satirical/comedic register may quietly reinforce rather than contest Islamophobia.
• SEED: Useful lens: does comic or ironic form in contemporary Muslim fiction betray collective solidarity the way Morey claims it does in Kureishi?

Related

• A novel’s chosen genre can encode political conservatism regardless of authorial intent (similarity 0.85)
• Comic register can encode an ideological hierarchy where liberal characters appear more fully human. (similarity 0.80)