In the liberal thrillers examined in chapter 5, John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan are concerned to contest those states of exception that engulfed Muslim subjects as their citizenship was called into question and their ability to move across borders was curtailed. These writers rehearse the precarious position of the outsider, or homo sacer, who already exists on the periphery and is vulnerable to the full force of securitization and exclusion.

DEFINE: The highlight introduces the concept of homo sacer — the peripheral outsider vulnerable to exclusion — as a lens for understanding Muslim subjects under securitization.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 68