Reading Reading Lolita in Tehran in Idaho

American Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-275

  Rowe, John Carlos ^a  

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EID: 45149090503     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: 10806490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2007.0047     Document Type: Review

References (45)

1. Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (New York: Random House, 2003). Further references in the text
2. John Carlos Rowe, "Culture, U.S. Imperialism, and Globalization," American Literary History 16.4 (Winter 2004): 575-95
3. John Carlos Rowe, "European Lessons in Imperialism: A Letter to America," Transatlantic Studies (forthcoming 2007)
4. Frank Norris, "The Frontier Gone at Last," The Complete Works of Frank Norris, vol. 4 (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1899), 283, is just one example of fin-de-siècle writings defending the superiority and inevitable global domination of the Anglo-Saxon "race." Norris predicts that "this epic of civilization" ends in "the true patriotism [that] is the brotherhood of man" and the knowledge that "the whole world is our nation and simple humanity our countrymen" (289)
5. Reginald Horsman's Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981) is the classic study of this cultural tradition
6. Richard Byrne, "A Collision of Prose and Politics," Chronicle of Higher Education 53.8 (October 13, 2006): A12-14, 16
7. Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999)
8. Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999)
9. and Who Defended the Country? ed. Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003)
10. From the Dialogue Project Web site, http://dialogueproject.sais-jhu.edu/ anafisi.php (accessed March 13,2007)
11. "Paul D. Wolfowitz," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Paul_Wolfowitz (accessed February 22, 2007)
12. From "About the Author," in Reading Lolita in Tehran, and "Roundtable: Three Women, Two Worlds, One Issue," 31
13. Frank Lentricchia, The Edge of Night: A Confession (New York: Random House, 1994)
14. Edward Said, Out of Place: A Memoir (New York: Knopf, 1999)
15. Marianna Torgovnick, Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
16. Steven Mailloux, "Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading," in American Reception Studies: Reconsiderations and New Directions, ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
17. Susan Stanford Friedman, "Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents," American Literature and the Planet, ed. Lawrence Buell and Wai-Chee Dimock (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007)
18. Mitra Rastegar, "Reading Nafisi in the West," 126n6, notes that Reading Lolita in Tehran has not been translated into Farsi, is virtually unknown in Iran, and is dismissed by those Iranians familiar with it as Western propaganda
19. Nafisi, "Roundtable: Three Women, Two Worlds, One Issue," 45
20. Mitra Rastegar, "Reading Nafisi in the West," 113
21. Robert W. Johannsen, To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 68, 170
22. Martha Nussbaum, "Introduction," in Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities, ed. Martha C. Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 4
23. Mitra Rastegar, "Reading Nafisi in the West," 111
24. Paul Berman, Power and the Idealists, or, The Passion of Joschka Fisher and Its Aftermath (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press, 2005), 172
25. A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996)
26. Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. C. Lenhardt, ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), 7
27. Bertholt Brecht, Brecht on Theater: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed. and trans. John Willett (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), 91-99
28. Murray Krieger, "The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism," in The Play and Place of Criticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967), 239-51
29. Sarah N. Lawall, Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968)
30. Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
31. David Bleich, Readings and Feelings: An Introduction to Subjective Criticism (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1975)
32. Steven Mailloux, Rhetorical Power (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989)
33. See Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1998)
34. and Cary Nelson, Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory 1910-1945 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992)
35. Philip Roth, The Great American Novel (New York: Penguin Books, 1973)
36. R. W. B. Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1955)
37. Rowe, At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 3
38. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925), 3
39. Rowe, The New American Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 76-77
40. John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997)
41. See my review of Cary Nelson, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
42. and John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, in Academe: Bulletin of the A.A.U.P. (May-June 1998): 76-77
43. "Vow for 'Freedom in All the World': Text of the Inaugural Address," Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2005, A22. Rowe, "European Lessons in Imperialism: A Letter to America," MS 1-2
44. Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000)
45. and Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). Fukuyama is one of Nafisi's colleagues at the School for Advanced International Studies