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In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations
of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts
of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey
analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to
the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice, showing how their portrayals of
Muslims both reflect and refute the ideological preoccupations of
media and politicians in the post-9/11 West. Islamophobia and the
Novel discusses novels embodying a range of positions-from the
avowedly secular to the religious, and from texts that appear to
underwrite Western assumptions of cultural superiority to those
that recognize and critique neoimperial impulses. Morey offers
nuanced readings of works by John Updike, Ian McEwan, Hanif
Kureishi, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, John le Carre, Khaled Hosseini,
Azar Nafisi, and other writers, emphasizing the demands of the
literary marketplace for representations of Muslims. He explores
how depictions of Muslim experience have challenged liberal
assumptions regarding the novel's potential for empathy and its
ability to encompass a variety of voices. Morey argues for a
greater degree of critical self-consciousness in our understanding
of writing by and about Muslims, in contrast to both exclusionary
nationalism and the fetishization of difference. Contemporary
literature's capacity to unveil the conflicted nature of
anti-Muslim bigotry expands our range of resources to combat
Islamophobia. This, in turn, might contribute to Islamophobia's
eventual dismantling.
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