“We are like episodes of Lost for the Western onlooker – only images, hard to resist,” he said in a nonchalant tone as if stating the obvious.
“Yes,” I thought but didn’t say, “or a library of foreign material, selectively translated into easy-to-digest platitudes and poured into sensational pages of memoirs written in the West and for the West – a genre that first animates you and then, moves scrupulously to slice up your individual and social experience, all the while as it makes sure all the traces of agency are sifted and discarded so what’s left is remunerative material for a graphic illustration of victims of injustice and tyranny all doomed to anger, hate and despair.”...
//www.harvardiglp.org/new-thinking-new-writing/a-march-in-tehran/
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by reza lizard on Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:29 AM PDThi. i am still looking for the french books so please send ms ansari or prof moradzadeh's contact information into my inbox. racheraghi@gmail.com i would be greatful and your help is appreciated. thanks.