FREE THINGS IVE BEEN SILENT ABOUT: MEMORIES OF A PRODIGAL DAUGHTER PDF Azar Nafisi | 341 pages | 02 Mar 2010 | Random House USA Inc | 9780812973907 | English | New York, United States Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter - Azar Nafisi - Google Books Levertijd We doen er alles aan om dit artikel op tijd te bezorgen. Het is echter in een enkel geval mogelijk dat door omstandigheden de bezorging vertraagd is. Bezorgopties We bieden verschillende opties aan voor het bezorgen of ophalen van je bestelling. Welke opties voor jouw bestelling beschikbaar zijn, zie je bij het afronden van de bestelling. Taal: Engels. Schrijf een review. Auteur: Azar Nafisi. Uitgever: Random House Usa Inc. Azar Nafisi. A passionate advocate of books and reading, she speaks to packed audiences around the world about the importance of nurturing a democratic imagination. She lives in Washington, D. Alles van Azar Nafisi. Samenvatting In this stunning personal story Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter growing up in Iran, Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful mother against the backdrop of a country's political revolution. This beautiful memoir reminds us of why we read in the first place "Newsday". Overige kenmerken Extra groot lettertype Nee Gewicht g Verpakking breedte mm Verpakking hoogte 24 mm Verpakking lengte mm. Toon meer Toon minder. Reviews Schrijf een review. Bindwijze: Paperback. Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter tweedehands. Verkoop door Bogamo 11 tweedehands boeken! In winkelwagen Op verlanglijstje. Bestellen en betalen via bol. Tweedehands artikelen retourneren is vaak niet gratis. Anderen bekeken ook. KRF Iran Dumont 1. Things I've Been Silent About 0. Memories of a Hungarian American 0. Memories of San Gregorio 0. American Heroines 0. Life is About Choices - A Memoir 0. Brigitta, Little Girl in the Allegheny Mountains 0. Schemer 0. Bekijk de hele lijst. Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi A slow read about growing up in Iran. Perhaps if I knew more about the politics of the time, it would be a bit easier. However, I do love getting the perspective of the people who seem to be on the outside of their culture and how this has affected them. Read full review. Well I am giving this Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter stars for now, and I will think about whether I want to give it more. On GR three stars mean I liked it. Which I did. Oddly, I liked it slightly less than Reading Lolita Account Options Sign in. My library Help Advanced Book Search. View eBook. Azar Nafisi. In Azar Nafisi's personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. Nafisi's intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerising fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. When her father began to see other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi's complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal - as well as political, cultural, and social - injustices. In she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in she and her family left Iran for America. She lives Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter Washington, D. From the Hardcover edition. Bibliographic information. Literature from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen | Tisch Library website She is the niece of famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Nafisi was born in Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter of Nezhat and Ahmad Nafisi, a former mayor of Tehran —who was the youngest man ever appointed to the post at that time. Nafisi was raised in Tehran and at thirteen years old she moved to Lancaster to finish her studies. After this, she moved to Switzerland. She got a degree in English and American literature and received her Ph. Nafisi returned to Iran just before and witnessed the Iranian Revolution. During this time she was a professor of English literature at Tehran University, [8] where she stayed during eighteen years struggling against the implementation of the revolution's ideas and procedures. Inin disagreement with faculty authorities over her refusal to wear the veil, she stopped teaching at the university. Over the next two years, she invited several of her female students to attend regular meetings at her house, every Thursday morning. They discussed their place as women within post-revolutionary Iranian society and studied literary works, including some considered "controversial" by the regime, such as Lolita alongside other works such as Madame Bovary. She also taught novels by F. Scott FitzgeraldHenry James and Jane Austenattempting to understand and interpret them from a modern Iranian perspective. Nafisi left Iran on June 24,and moved to the United States, where she wrote Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksa book where she describes her experiences as a secular woman living and working in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the book, she declares "I left Iran, but Iran did not leave me. In a article for The GuardianBrian Whitaker criticized Nafisi for working for the public relations firm Benador Associates which he argued promoted the neo-conservative ideas of " creative destruction " and " total war ". Bush and a principal Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter of the Bush Doctrine. Hitchens had stated that Nafisi was good friends with Wolfowitz and several other key figures in the Bush administration. Nafisi later responded to Hitchen's comments, neither confirming nor denying the claim. In a critical article in the academic journal Comparative American Studiestitled "Reading Azar Nafisi in Tehran", University of Tehran literature professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi states that "Nafisi constantly confirms what orientalist representations have regularly claimed". He also claimed that she "has produced gross misrepresentations of Iranian society and Islam and that she uses quotes and references which are inaccurate, misleading, or even wholly invented. InColumbia University professor Hamid Dabashiin an essay published in the Cairo-based, English- language paper Al-Ahram Dabashi's criticism of Nafisi became a cover story for an edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education Things Ive Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter compared Reading Lolita in Tehran to "the most pestiferous colonial projects of the British in India ," and asserted that Nafisi functions as a "native informer and colonial agent" whose writing has cleared the way for an upcoming exercise of military intervention on the Middle East. He also labelled Nafisi as a " comprador intellectual," a comparison to the "treasonous" Chinese employees of mainland British firms, who sold out their country for commercial gain and imperial grace. In an interview Z magazinehe classed Nafisi with the U. Critics such as Dabashi have accused Nafisi of having close relations with neoconservatives. Nafisi responded to Dabashi's criticism by stating that she is not, as Dabashi claims, a neoconservative, that she opposed the Iraq war, and that she is more interested in literature than in politics. In an interview, Nafisi stated that she has never argued for an attack on Iran and that democracy, when it comes, should come from the Iranian people and not from US military or political intervention. She added that while she is willing to engage in "serious argument Debate that is polarized isn't worth my time. Nafisi, who opposed the U. Like a Stalinist, he tries to convert culture into politics, the first step toward totalitarianism. Like the late Edward Said, he brands every thought he dislikes as an example of imperialism, expressing the West's desire for hegemony over the downtrodden even when oil-rich nations of the Third World. 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