@azarnafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is about how Iranian women are waiting to be liberated from their barbaric menfolk by American soldiers.
In this thread ๐งต, lets take a look at how novelists like Hosseini, Shafak, Ayaan, Khouri, Nafisi, and others are paraded before...
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In this thread ๐งต, lets take a look at how novelists like Hosseini, Shafak, Ayaan, Khouri, Nafisi, and others are paraded before...
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..the western audience as voices of dissent and re-emphasize the old oriental and racist stereotypes about Muslims and Islamic cultures.
Note here that most of these novelists/authors are women. We will explore this briefly, too, as to find out why this is the case.
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Note here that most of these novelists/authors are women. We will explore this briefly, too, as to find out why this is the case.
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Now it is no surprise that English literature and today, the mass media (English shows, movies, novels etc) have always been a tool utilised by the colonial powers in the past and today by US imperialism.
This was effective tool in erasing the indigenous literate.
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This was effective tool in erasing the indigenous literate.
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But the case of Nafisi @azarnafisi is very curious because she is just an average professor of literature, yet she was hired by US Deputy Secretary of Defence P. Wolfowitz, and celebrated by the entire brigade of neocons in the US and even Hitchens.
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She achieved all of that while she had not even published a single scholarly work under her name!
What is the reason for this?
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What is the reason for this?
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The answer is quite simple. @azarnafisi entertains the sexual fantasies of white middle-aged men. In her book, she presents the white man as a saviour of brown Muslim women. What's more insidious and disgusting is the cover photo of her book.
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What Nafisi shows through this her book cover + the title is this:
"A Muslim teenage girl having illicit sex with an adult white man. Just like in Lolita, there is a teenager who has sex with an adult. In "Reading Lolita," we have a Muslim teenage girl who is presented as a..
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"A Muslim teenage girl having illicit sex with an adult white man. Just like in Lolita, there is a teenager who has sex with an adult. In "Reading Lolita," we have a Muslim teenage girl who is presented as a..
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.. a lottery for the white man, a book with such vivid paedophilia, yet the book has been awarded with many international awards and global recognition.
Note that "Lolita," the original Russian novel, was banned for many decades due to its pornographic content in the West.
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Note that "Lolita," the original Russian novel, was banned for many decades due to its pornographic content in the West.
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Nafisi is not the only one involved in entertaining the sexual fantasies of white neocon men. @KhouriNorma "Forbidden Love" which was also a best-seller is about a Muslim woman who is in a relationship with a Christian guy. The book depicts the barbaric honour killing culture.
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...but it was later exposed that the book, which was supposed by a true story, was fake. Still, the book is read even to this day.
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As for the reason why it's always women who are presented at the forefront of demanding rights, we would have to go back a few centuries. Read this thread.
@janeygak, you might like this.
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