Review of "Lolita in Tehran" by Simon Hay.
Intro: >>Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita
in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Random House, 2003)
has become a popular choice for required summer
reading for incoming students at many colleges
and universities across the USA, including my
own. It has also been immensely popular with book
clubs, library organizations and the like.
Translated into thirty-two languages, it has
remained on the New York Times bestseller list
for over two years. Clearly, it offers a message
that 'resonates' for a significant portion of the
US and world reading publics. As a choice for
incoming first-year studentts, Nafisi's book
seems compelling because, as a reviewer from the
New York Times is quoted on the cover as saying,
it is an 'eloquent brief on the transformative
powers of fiction'. But what kind of reading
practices is the book describing and encouraging,
and what reading practices are being declared
significant intellectual engagements with
literature, and with Iran, in this positioning of Nafisi's book?<<
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