The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice i underlandet, genom olika ögon. "
(The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.")
I Azar Nafisis "Reading Lolita in Teheran" diskuterar författaren litteraturens inverkan på vår förståelse för oss själva och världen omkring oss. Hon säger att de största fiktionens verk ofta skapar en känsla av främling inom oss och utmanar våra etablerade övertygelser och traditioner. Detta obehag uppmanar läsarna att omvärdera vad de alltid har accepterat som normalt och driver dem att utforska nya perspektiv. Nafisi uppmuntrar sina elever att omfamna denna oroande...