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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books Cover Image Book Book

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books

Nafisi, Azar (Author).

Summary: "When Azar Nafisi was fired from Tehran University (where she was teaching English literature) because she refused to wear a veil, she gathered a group of her female students and resumed her classes at home, privately and discreetly. There, a group of young women discussed, argued about and communed with Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Henry James, Nabokov and others in the canon of English writers. The surreal picture of reading Lolita, weighing the sexuality of Jane Austen or the American authenticity of Gatsby in the severe aftermath of Iran's Islamic Revolution was not lost on either Nafisi or her students. The young women themselves represented a range of types and as we meet each of these students we enter their lives, investigate their backgrounds and receive an interesting insight into life in contemporary Iran."

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  • ISBN: 0375504907 (acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: 347 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2003]

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Nafisi, Azar

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Hughes Library B NAFISI (Text) 32378002661058 Adult Biography Available -
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