Read Dangerously- The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times - Azar Nafisi

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Political, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Biography Books About Books Essays History Literature Memoir Nonfiction Politics Social Justice

Written by Azar Nafisi
Read by Azar Nafisi
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

What is the role of literature in an era when the president wages 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 resistance literature, 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, Baba, 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.

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 03-08-22