02798cam a22004815i 4500 22981120 BJBSDDR 20240214155419.0 ta 0702204t20222022nyu e b 000 0 eng d 2022279380 020512728 Uk 9780062947369 (hardcover) 0062947362 (hardcover) (OCoLC)on1244274368 TOH eng BJBSDDR rda AZZPT Y$5 OEM CLE BRG RNL CPL IP6 RV8 VP@ OCLCO ON8 TXSCH OCLCO OCLCF VMI UKMGB YDX XII JYJ DLC eng lccopycat n-us--- a-ir--- Z 1003.5 N146r 2022 Nafisi, Azar, 1955- 34240 Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times / Azar Nafisi. Subversive power of literature in troubled times First edition. New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2022] ©2022 223 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223). 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. Literature History and criticism. Literatura Historia y crítica 6478 Protest literature History and criticism. Politics and literature. Política y literatura 4145 0 ibc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK rmza 120641 120641 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2024-02-07 0 Z 1003.5 N146r 2022 00000174618 2024-02-07 00:00:00 1 2024-02-07 BK