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But the girls can read the text from Lolita's point-of-view. They can appreciate her powerlessness, as they are powerless in the context of a state, held in the force of an oppressive regime even if the book is not explicitly about Iran. Nafisi defends her choice of European classics because they uphold the integrity of the individual, and the individual was given scant appreciation in Tehran at the time. A pro-Revolutionary Iranian might have suggested an uplifting, dull theological text as appropriate reading for the girls. An anti-Iranian activist...

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This is Nafisi would defend Lolita as an assignment in an American high school English class and Persepolis, because both are studies in individual importance, as individualistic as the bright colors her students wore beneath their dark robes.
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Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran. New York: Random House, 2003.

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