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Apr 29, 2003 · Persepolis 1 was written in 2000 and Persepolis 2 was written in 2004. Persepolis 1 begins by introducing, Marji, the ten-year-old protagonist. Set in 1980, the novel focuses on her experiences of growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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Aug 17, 2023 · The cartoonist, who has described her autobiographical comics as an ode to her home country, first published the memoir in four installments, between 2000 and 2003, in France, where she moved...
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Like Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, I left Iran in 1984. When I discovered this two-part graphic novel, I felt catapulted back into my own childhood. Written as a memoir, the first book begins with a young Marjane sitting in her elementary school class, a veil covering her head, introducing her classmates (also wearing veils) to the reader. In an almost magical way, she begins to ...
Oct 21, 2021 · PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi | Review first published May 11, 2003. Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” is the latest and one of the most delectable examples of a booming postmodern genre:...
May 13, 2015 · Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Marjane Satrapi's memoir of a childhood spent—in a well-off and left-liberal family—amid the upheavals of the Iranian Revolution has become a contemporary classic. What are the sources of its success? Persepolis has a very literary structure, for one: it takes…
Faculty & Research. Library & Research Services. Collections. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. Persepolis. Date of Publication: 2003. View on HOLLIS. Authors: Marjane Satrapi.
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution ...
