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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran. Fatemeh Keshavarz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 174 pages. $24.95 cloth.

Jasmine and Stars combines literary analysis and lyrical memoir in a style reminiscent of the very book that author Fatemeh Keshavarz seeks to refute, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003). Keshavarz weaves together an extended critique of Reading Lolita and some of her most cherished memories of early life in Iran; she also introduces and discusses a variety of Iranian women writers, with infectious enthusiasm, to western readers. Jasmine and Stars works best when it describes the verse and fiction, respectively, of poet Forough Farrokhzad and novelist Shahrnush Parsipur. The portrait that emerges of these two exciting writers and their work goes a long way toward...

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