Mapping Ideoscapes: The Reactionary Globe in Shamsie’s Home Fire

This analysis first addresses reactionary political rhetoric using the framework of critical diversity literacy (CDL). In explicating the rhetoric of a nationalist politician in Home Fire , I show not only the efficacy of decolonial educational approaches, but also the unity of conservative and liberal political agendas. I, then, shift to charting the world Shamsie’s novel seeks to map out. This analysis suggests that incomplete novelistic cartographies leave little room for notions of conviviality.