What does seem potentially useful is the idea of reading as proactive in situating itself—as well as the cultural commodities it examines—within networks of power. Reading is thus no longer a mode of passive reception or of reassembling known elements within an ideology that remains the unacknowledged norm. It becomes instead a mode of engaging with difference wherein critical practice transforms not only its object but itself, too.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 396