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Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favourite American novels - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others - she invites us to join her as citizens of her Republic of Imagination, a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
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Books and reading, Fiction, American fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, History and criticism, Social aspects, Iranians, united states, Teachers, united states, Teachers, biography, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, National characteristics in literature, Twain, mark, 1835-1910, Lewis, sinclair, 1885-1951, Mccullers, carson, 1917-1967Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The republic of imagination: the case for fiction
2014, William Heinemann
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0434022152 9780434022151
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