Reading in Tehran (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Azar Nafisi
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Literary criticism and memoir
- Time of Work: 1979-1997
- Setting: Tehran, Iran
- Principal Characters: Azar Nafisi, The students, Bijan Naderi
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Freedom, Language or languages, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, Literature, Islam, Education or educators, Friendship, 1980’s, Victims, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Conservatism, Muslims, Reading, Heroes or heroism, 1990’s, Women’s rights, Career women, Persia, Fundamentalism, Iran or Iranian people
- Locales: Iran
In 1995, literature professor Azar Nafisi gathered together seven of the best woman students from her years in various universities in Tehran and started a special class she had been pondering for some time. For the next two years, until Nafisi’s departure for the United States, the group would meet every Thursday morning in her home and discuss books. These books—Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Henry James’s The Ambassadors (1903), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), among others—are...
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