Iranian memoir protagonists are denied character development by exoticizing authors

Evidence

Similarly, Keshavarz has remarked that Nafisi’s characters, unlike the characters of those novelists she praises, “do not change, and they most certainly do not grow” (Jasmine and Stars, 113). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 745

Categorization

• QUESTION: Would be worth chasing: does the pattern of static Iranian characters extend to Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, or does Hamid grant him the growth Nafisi’s figures lack?
• XREF: connects to: A novel can expose stereotypes yet trap its own character within them; Static characters mark a memoir’s failure to render lived complexity.; A memoir can claim literary polyphony while actually suppressing dissent through authorial control — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 237 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A novel can expose stereotypes yet trap its own character within them; Static characters mark a memoir’s failure to render lived complexity.; A memoir can claim literary polyphony while actually suppressing dissent through authorial control — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 237 (+2 more)