ABSTRACT
Marjane Satrapi (b. 1969) wrote/drew her autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis while living in France in the 1990s. It was originally published serially between 2000 and 2003, depicting the author’s tumultuous childhood growing up in Iran and later, her struggles to find herself in Europe, with a denouement covering her difficult return home to Iran, and then concluding with a final departure to France. The work has met with universal critical acclaim and stands as an exemplary model of the genre of the graphic novel. As with the previous chapter, the author actually provides physical representations of the body along with the narrative. It is precisely this aspect of Satrapi’s work that makes it so singularly compelling and meaningful.
