Jane Austen in Iran
The Baltimore Sun interviews Azar Nafisi , author of Reading Lolita in Tehran.
From the article:
Iranian writer Azar Nafisi believes in using the power of imagination to change women’s lives.
Her best-selling book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, tells the story of a clandestine book group Nafisi held at her own home in defiance of government book bans. The literature she shared with her seven female students - works by Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Austen, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald - offered temporary escape and perspective on the totalitarian regime in which they were living. Inside their teacher’s home, the young women shed their veils and gained a new way of perceiving themselves as well as the fundamentalism oppressing them.
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