Read Dangerously : : the Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

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Call Number: 809.933 Na, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Nafisi, Azar
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Rushdie, Plato, Bradbury -- Hurston, Morrison -- Grossman, Ackerman, Khoury -- Atwood -- Baldwin, Coates.
What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics? In this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, she crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so. Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more.

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A must-read for people who like books about books submitted by tcramer318 on April 17, 2023, 1:56pm I knew Azar Nafisi from her book Reading Lolita in Tehran, and this book takes those ideas and further develops them for the time in which we live. She does not have a political agenda, but rather wants readers to engage with works that challenge them and their ideas on the nature of humanity. In doing this, readers can have a better framework for understanding and challenging the information and messaging they may be taking in from elsewhere in this country and the world. Very thoughtful and grew out my reading list with some of the novels and poetry which she references throughout the book.