المقاصد في اللغة والأدب
Volume 5, Numéro 1, Pages 109-125
2026-01-01
Reconfiguring Subalternity: The Politics Of Centralization And The Construction Of Muslimness In Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Authors : Kerkeni Rania .
Abstract
This study probes the shift in the strategies of marginalizing minorities from direct exclusion and invisibility to inclusion and hypervisibility under “Western Democracies.” Drawing on Stuart Hall’s “Spectacle of the Other” and Gayatri Spivak’s notion of the Subaltern, it examines the process of “centralization” as a latent form of subalternization in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017). Through a close textual analysis of the narrative, this work explores how centralizing Muslim minorities, mainly within Western media and political rhetoric, functions as a subtle mechanism of manipulation and its implications for the construction of the Muslim identity. Ultimately, in alignment with Spivak’s insights about the “risky” task of speaking for the subaltern, this study discusses the extent to which Shamsie has succeeded in departing from the stereotyping processes in her attempt to speak for and (re)present Muslim subalterns.
Keywords
centralization, hypervisibility, Muslimness, Western Democracy, Subaltern
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