Jamal Awil

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Satirical social comedy forms are politically hostile to collective movements [causal]

Put simply, one might say that the satirical social comedy form, of which The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album are preeminent examples, inscribes a conservatism that is not only uninterested in rendering the motivations and solidarities of the Riaz group but also actively hostile to them precisely because they are inherently collective.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 181