Bibliograph

Read dangerously, the subversive power of literature in troubled times, Azar Nafisi

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Read dangerously, the subversive power of literature in troubled times, Azar Nafisi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Read dangerously

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Azar Nafisi

Sub title

the subversive power of literature in troubled times

Summary

Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time, arming readers with a resistance reading list that includes Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, and Margaret Atwood

Table Of Contents

The first letter: Rushie, Plato, Bradbury -- The second letter: Hurston, Morrison -- The third letter: Grossman, Ackerman, Khoury -- The fourth letter: Atwood -- The fifth letter: Baldwin, Coates

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