Peter Morey is professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Fictions of India: Narrative and Power (2000) and Rohinton Mistry (2004) and coauthor of Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (2011).

With his characteristic brilliance and integrity, Peter Morey, a noted public intellectual, illustrates the impact of surging Islamophobia on mainstream literature in this masterful study. A man whose career has centered on building bridges between divided cultures, his is a voice to heed in these confusing and troubled times.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction—Islamophobia: The Word and the World1. Islam, Culture, and Anarchy: Faith, Doubt, and Liberalism in Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, and John Updike2. From Multiculturalism to Islamophobia: Identity Politics and Individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali3. Muslim Misery Memoirs: The Truth Claims of Exotic Suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini4. Migrant Cartographies: Islamophobia and the Politics of the City Space in Amy Waldman and H. M. Naqvi5. States of Statelessness: Islamophobia and Border Spaces in the Post-9/11 Thrillers of John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan6. Islamophobia and the Global Novel: “Worlding” History in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie7. Marketing the Muslim: Globalization and the Postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila AboulelaConclusion—Toward a Critical Muslim Literary StudiesNotesBibliographyIndex

Peter Morey is professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Fictions of India: Narrative and Power (2000) and Rohinton Mistry (2004) and coauthor of Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (2011).

With his characteristic brilliance and integrity, Peter Morey, a noted public intellectual, illustrates the impact of surging Islamophobia on mainstream literature in this masterful study. A man whose career has centered on building bridges between divided cultures, his is a voice to heed in these confusing and troubled times.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction—Islamophobia: The Word and the World1. Islam, Culture, and Anarchy: Faith, Doubt, and Liberalism in Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, and John Updike2. From Multiculturalism to Islamophobia: Identity Politics and Individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali3. Muslim Misery Memoirs: The Truth Claims of Exotic Suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini4. Migrant Cartographies: Islamophobia and the Politics of the City Space in Amy Waldman and H. M. Naqvi5. States of Statelessness: Islamophobia and Border Spaces in the Post-9/11 Thrillers of John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan6. Islamophobia and the Global Novel: “Worlding” History in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie7. Marketing the Muslim: Globalization and the Postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila AboulelaConclusion—Toward a Critical Muslim Literary StudiesNotesBibliographyIndex

Peter Morey is professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Fictions of India: Narrative and Power (2000) and Rohinton Mistry (2004) and coauthor of Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (2011).

With his characteristic brilliance and integrity, Peter Morey, a noted public intellectual, illustrates the impact of surging Islamophobia on mainstream literature in this masterful study. A man whose career has centered on building bridges between divided cultures, his is a voice to heed in these confusing and troubled times.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction—Islamophobia: The Word and the World1. Islam, Culture, and Anarchy: Faith, Doubt, and Liberalism in Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, and John Updike2. From Multiculturalism to Islamophobia: Identity Politics and Individualism in Hanif Kureishi and Monica Ali3. Muslim Misery Memoirs: The Truth Claims of Exotic Suffering in Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini4. Migrant Cartographies: Islamophobia and the Politics of the City Space in Amy Waldman and H. M. Naqvi5. States of Statelessness: Islamophobia and Border Spaces in the Post-9/11 Thrillers of John Le Carré, Dan Fesperman, and Richard Flanagan6. Islamophobia and the Global Novel: “Worlding” History in Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie7. Marketing the Muslim: Globalization and the Postsecular in Mohsin Hamid and Leila AboulelaConclusion—Toward a Critical Muslim Literary StudiesNotesBibliographyIndex