Terrorist tropes absorb every anxiety that disrupts liberal routine

Evidence

Robert Eaglestone describes how Baxter comes to be overdetermined. He is “a metonym for illness, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, the anti-war demonstration, terrorism, the war on terrorism: in short, anything that disrupts Henry Perowne’s organised life” (” ‘The Age of Reason Was Over … — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 614

Categorization

• DEFINE: Eaglestone’s ‘overdetermined’ gives a precise term for how Muslim-coded figures become vessels for multiple anxieties at once.
• XREF: Directly useful for reading Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist — he is similarly overdetermined as every American anxiety. — connects to: The produced moral panic far exceeds the actual terrorist threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 762