Menelvagor
04-24-2004, 08:42 PM
Has anyone read "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi? It has recently jumped onto the best-seller list in America, so I thought it might be known. I've been reading it for a seminar class, and the debate has gotten fairly heated, and I thought I'd like to see what some mooters thought about it. The objections that have been surfacing have been largely concerning Nafisi's style, that she writes in a way that doesn't emfasize what she intends, that most people will simply read the book to confirm what they feel about the Middle East. It has a problem because it is a pro-Western book, focusing on the repressions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and, for readers in America, could be read as nothing more than a confirmation of Western ideals. What do you think? I'll post my own ideas if anyone's read the book.