PAPER 1 Yumi Shiroma| Expos 355:101BH
Reading:Karen Ho, “Biographies of Hegemony”Azar Nafisi, “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran”
While crafting your response, you might consider some of the following questions. (These are meant to help you brainstorm. Your paper does NOT have to answer all of them. Instead, make sure the paper argues for a clear central claim.)
What kinds of details do both authors notice and record about their subjects’ lives?
Do they make similar types of observations?
How do the details they record differ from each other?
What does this tell us about the authors’ interests, priorities, or values?
How would you characterize the oppressive systems described in both readings?
Who’s in charge?
Who benefits? Who is harmed?
What types of control do these systems exert on people’s actions?
What ways, if any, do we see people resisting oppressive systems in these readings?
How would Nafisi interpret Ho’s evidence, and vice versa?
Can you take a concept found in one reading and apply it to another?
What can we learn from reading these texts together that we couldn’t learn from reading them separately?
