Comments on: Guest Post: Paria Kooklan on Iran Overload http://blog.vromans.com/guest-post-paria-kooklan-on-iran-overload Independent Bookstore Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: hass http://blog.vromans.com/guest-post-paria-kooklan-on-iran-overload/comment-page-1#comment-10257 hass Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:56:15 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1092#comment-10257 The reason why Reading Lolita became popular was political. Columbia Prof. Hamid Dabashi wrote about it <a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a> And, most Iranians actually living in Iran consider Reading Lolita to be an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60490-2004Jul18.html" rel="nofollow">inaccurate representation</a> This is not uncommon. Remember, TIME editor Henry Luce was responsible for promoting Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth -- again, for political reasons. The reason why Reading Lolita became popular was political. Columbia Prof. Hamid Dabashi wrote about it here

And, most Iranians actually living in Iran consider Reading Lolita to be an inaccurate representation

This is not uncommon. Remember, TIME editor Henry Luce was responsible for promoting Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth — again, for political reasons.

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