A writer can praise dialogic openness while producing dogmatic closed interpretive work

Evidence

Even so, a certain awkwardness in Nafisi’s own artistic execution, contrasted with the humane expansiveness of those writers she would celebrate, points up a narrative voice that is shrill and intolerant. In practice, Nafisi cannot reproduce such generous capaciousness in her own work, being dogmatic and domineering in her interpretations of the “true” meaning of each of the novels she teaches, cutting off those students who disagree or who venture other readings and continuously speaking for those favored few with whom she sympathizes. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the contest-vs-reinforce distinction driving this reading of Hamid and Naqvi: a text’s explicit stance can contradict its formal practice.