Jamal Awil

← Islamophobia and the Novel

Novelists relocate marginalized experiences to white, non-Muslim protagonists. [contrarian]

However, they also tend to displace experiences of marginalization from Muslims to white, non-Muslim protagonists, suggesting a discomfort with conveying culturally different experience in their novels.

SEED: Possible angle: examining how well-meaning authors sidestep carrying marginalized voices by writing displaced, outsider characters — a craft and ethics issue.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 68