Early .in Chapter "JO of Readi11g Lolita i11 Tehran, Nafui writes, ''Lolita was 1101 a critique of the Islamic Republic, but it went against the grain of all totalitarian perspectives." Without...

Early .in Chapter "JO of Readi11g Lolita i11 Tehran, Nafui writes, ''Lolita was 1101 a critique of the Islamic Republic, but it went against the grain of all totalitarian perspectives." Without consulting a dictionaiy, and drawing instead on Nafisi's account, tty to define rotalirarian. What social and psychological effects does the totalitarian regime have on Nafisi and her students? ln what sense might Lolita or other books you know pose a challenge to totalitatian.ism? How are literature and the other arts-music, painting, sculpture, dance-inherently l.iberating? ls it possible for art itself to be totalita1ian?