Interesting - I had a friend over for dinner last week and she was criticizing Reading Lolita in Tehran for the same reason (the New Orientalist problem; she said that Edward Said had used some of the books they read in RLT as examples of problematic literature). I'll send her a link to this post.
(However, having read RLT, I do think it paints a more complex picture of women's life in Iran compared to what we (or I at least) assume about life in oppressive regimes. So I do think it's a valuable perspective.)
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Date: 2009-05-23 08:30 pm (UTC)(However, having read RLT, I do think it paints a more complex picture of women's life in Iran compared to what we (or I at least) assume about life in oppressive regimes. So I do think it's a valuable perspective.)