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BOOKS I READ: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (2000). The Iranian Revolution and the overthrow of the Shah from the perspective of a precocious girl. Marji is wise to the inconsistencies and contradictions of the upheaval that becomes the Islamic Revolution, as the religious front takes over the country. The graphic-novel depicts the changes to girls’ and women’s freedom, her rebellious spirit is naive to the dangers of going against the radical faithful, the extremists. Things get even dicier as Iran goes to war against Iraq, and the war soon comes to her city, Tehran.
The black-and-white drawings are expressive, yet spare. Motifs are used to accentuate or expand the depictions of sadness, despair, and the rigidness and brutality of new regime.
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