The term global in my usage suggests that these novels describe subjects and situations that are the result of the logic of globalization, at the same time thereby criticizing, exposing, and awakening in the reader a new awareness of the costs of that process. Inasmuch as the contemporary novel itself takes its place in a globalized market for ideas, the addition of an element of distancing or defamiliarization—worlding, in Kadir's terms—at least allows conventional reactions and expectations to be bracketed and exposed to scrutiny. As we have seen, writing a "world novel" is not a smooth process, and there is always the possibility that to explore the outcomes of global power through one of its major cultural vehicles is to risk reproducing some of its foundational assumptions about art, life, and the relationship between them.

DEFINE: Defines what the author means by 'global' novels: works that both reflect globalization's logic and critically defamiliarize it.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 437