The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 7: “Reading Lolita in Tehran”
Notations
00:00:25 – Introduction, On Revisiting the Controversy Surrounding Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran
Hamid Dabashi. “Native Informers and the Making of American Empire”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus. “Pawn of the Neocons?”
Seymour Hirsch. “The Iran Plans”
Hamid Dabashi (int.) “Lolita and Beyond”
Gayatri Spivak. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Sadeq Hedayat. The Blind Owl
Simin Daneshvar. Savashun
Ibn Warrag, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Comprador Intellectual
Azar Nafisi as Speaker
David Brooks. Bobos in Paradise
Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat, Pray, Love
Forugh Farrokhzad [Ed. Note: My personal, favorite poet.] Ten. (2002) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Box Office for Ten
Sales for Reading Lolita in Tehran [Ed. Note: Of course, this is a loose comparison and there is much to be said for video, perhaps, but the figure for Nafisi’s book is apparently around 1.7 million copies.] Franz Fanon. Wretched of the Earth(introduction by Sartre)
Technical Details: Recorded on a Samson CO1U into an msi PC running the beta version of the freeware program Audacity 1.3.13 while consuming copious amounts of Coke Zero and good old-fashioned New York City tap water.