Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article argues that two recent novels, Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Tabish Khair’s 2012 How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, navigate the quiet complicities around quotidian post-9/11 Islamophobic suspicion by pairing the surveillance of Muslim “others” with the surveillance of sexual “others”. In particular, it argues that in both texts, narrative form implicates the reader in the surveillance of South Asian Muslim men and white gay men. In doing so, the article links the US and UK’s state racism of the present with their historical state homophobia, showing how the novels connect historically different strategies of “guilt by association”.
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