The Islamophobia in these texts is often identified on the level of content and message. I have tried to show in this chapter that aspects of form—such as the use of omniscience or the promotion or downplaying of different voices—may also underpin this project but that, as often as not, these same tactics expose the effort involved in constructing a unified vision supportive of power agendas. The texts are always conflicted, even as they make their self-confident claims to credibility.

XREF: Connects to poststructuralist and narratological critique of omniscient narration as an ideological device, e.g., narratology work on focalization and unreliable narration.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 261