The Guardians look unearthly and imposing as they tower above little Marji in their floor-length veils. For example, the illustration below shows Marji being accosted and interrogated by two Guardians of the Revolution for being improperly dressed. Veiled women often appear in part one of the novel at moments of desperation and conflict. They are hardly distinguishable from one another, as they beat their chests to pay homage to their martyred “brothers”. Whenever the children are depicted wearing the veil Satrapi’s graphics become plainer and unassuming – mirroring the uniformity of the girls. For example, the veil is an extensively repeated image throughout Persepolis and with it the illustrations seem to change. Satrapi’s black and white illustrations, for example, mirror the very repression that Marji and her friends and family face.
The relationship between narrative and graphics. She senstively and truthfully illustrates her development into a woman amongst the trauma of revolution, war and repression - redefining the importance of the graphic novel as historically and autobiographically informing. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comic-book makes Persepolis totally unique and indispensable” (Arnold, Time Magazine).Īrnold's strange analogy is fitting to Persepolis as Satrapi conveys a world many Westerners have only experienced from a Western perseptive. It has the strange quality of a note in a bottle written by a shipwrecked islander. Arnold in Time Magazine described Satrapi’s work Persepolis has been highly acclaimed by critics, an interesting review by Andrew D. Satrapi’s graphics mirror the repression dealt with in her narrative.
The comics explore the effects and responses to the ideological implementations of the Islamic theocracy, both through their narrative and their form. The political, religious, and economic strife that shaped her childhood and adolescence” (Tensuan, 956).Īs major factors affecting her development. However, rather than a simple coming-of-age story Satrapi inserts the difficulties of Marjane Satrapi’s episodic graphic novel tells the story of herself as a young girl growing up in post-revolutionary Iran. Staff Intranet (Restricted permissions).Undergraduates (Restricted permissions).
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