The novel treats political radicalization as displaced personal longing

Evidence

Arin Keeble suggests that The Submission rejects pure, authentic notions of identity and emphasizes internal divisions within characters as a way of undoing the reductive polarization of a clash-of-civilizations viewpoint (The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics, and Identity [Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014], 168, 170). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 792 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Novels contest Islamophobia by foregrounding characters’ internal divisions — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 792; Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences

Related

• Novels contest Islamophobia by foregrounding characters’ internal divisions (similarity 0.90)
• Contesting Islamophobia in fiction requires defamiliarizing narrative form, not merely invoking empathy. (similarity 0.90)
• Novels that foreground internal identity divisions can undo clash-of-civilizations polarization (similarity 0.88)
• Thrillers can contest Islamophobic truisms by transgressing constructs of essential difference. (similarity 0.84)
• The novel’s formal ambiguities can contest Islamophobic assumptions even in complicit texts (similarity 0.82)
• Novels that aim for evenhandedness can leave the good Muslim-bad Muslim binary intact (similarity 0.82)
• Novels can reproduce or contest Islamophobia irrespective of authorial intent through formal features (similarity 0.81)
• A novel can cite Orientalist cliches while undermining their authority through an unreliable focalizer. (similarity 0.81)
• The liberal novel reaches a boundary in accommodating Islamic political identity claims. (similarity 0.80)
• The Forsterian stance fails to balance personal and political trauma in Islamophobia fiction (similarity 0.80)
• Contesting novels deconstruct the frames, not just the content, of the Islamophobia debate (similarity 0.80)
• Novels encode their stance on Islamic identity through form as much as content. (similarity 0.79)
• Formal ambiguities can contest Islamophobia even in sympathetic texts (similarity 0.79)
• A novel’s ambivalence can quietly reinforce the very stereotypes it claims to contest (similarity 0.79)
• A novel can criticize explicit Islamophobia while endorsing its underlying assumptions (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Novels contest Islamophobia by foregrounding characters’ internal divisions #expands (0.60) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 792
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences #corroborates (0.55)