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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books / Azar Nafisi.
LIBRA - Special PR55.N34 N34 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nafisi, Azar.
- Series:
- Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))
- Random House reader's circle
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nafisi, Azar.
- English teachers--Iran--Biography.
- English teachers.
- English literature--Study and teaching--Iran.
- English literature.
- American literature--Study and teaching--Iran.
- American literature.
- Women--Books and reading--Iran.
- Women.
- Group reading--Iran.
- Group reading.
- Women--Books and reading.
- American literature--Study and teaching.
- English literature--Study and teaching.
- Iran.
- Women--Books and Reading--Iran.
- Teaching.
- Literature.
- North America.
- Medical Subjects:
- Teaching.
- Iran.
- Literature.
- North America.
- Women.
- Local Subjects:
- Women--Books and Reading--Iran.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2004]
- Summary:
- Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not only about literature, but also about the social, political, and cultural realities of living under strict Islamic rule.
- Contents:
- Lolita
- Gatsby
- James
- Austen.
- ISBN:
- 081297106X
- 9780812971064
- OCLC:
- 56756685
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