http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2006/12/reading-lolita-in-tehran-good-literature-imperialist-dogma-or-sentimental-tripe/ rhetorics, compositions, technologies, literacies, sexualities Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2006/12/reading-lolita-in-tehran-good-literature-imperialist-dogma-or-sentimental-tripe/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Sara Jameson Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:23:45 +0000 http://oregonstate.edu/~farism/blog/?p=292#comment-160 Thanks for this link. I am currently reading -- well, more accurately, not reading but thinking I should get back to -- Nafisi's book on my nightstand, and truthfully, I was already a bit disappointed. As much as I like memoir and travel writing and literature, I was finding Reading Lolita in Tehran a bit superficial and worried that I had somehow missed something important. Based on Gideon Lewis-Kraus's critique, I can now reassure myself that I am not missing anything. And I might give myself permission to not finish reading it. After all, not even Michael Faris can read everything, so one must choose. Thanks for this link. I am currently reading — well, more accurately, not reading but thinking I should get back to — Nafisi’s book on my nightstand, and truthfully, I was already a bit disappointed. As much as I like memoir and travel writing and literature, I was finding Reading Lolita in Tehran a bit superficial and worried that I had somehow missed something important. Based on Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s critique, I can now reassure myself that I am not missing anything. And I might give myself permission to not finish reading it. After all, not even Michael Faris can read everything, so one must choose.

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