She reacts to the forces around her by variously denying, lashing out against, emulating, supporting, or resigning herself to them. Focus is placed primarily upon Marjane Satrapis graphic novel Persepolis, which is analyzed as part of this larger memoir phenomenon. From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women, gathering together Marjane’s toughtalking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric. As a child, she must contend with being thrust into the consequences of the adult world without being fully able or allowed-even by her mother and father, who try to protect her-to understand the shadowy mechanisms that dictate the oftentimes sorrowful fates of her friends and members of her family. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapis best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran. The main threats to her sense of self and growth are the new regime’s restrictive measures, most notably the imposition that all women must wear the veil, which disallows in public the kind of modern outlook and expression that Marjane would prefer. The confusion stems from her valiant attempts at trying to understand the embattled and restrictive world that she lives in-post-Revolution Iran-as well as her attempts at trying to maintain her dignity, independence, and individuality among often senseless torture, suffering, and death. Marjane is a strong-willed, sometimes confused protagonist who we follow from childhood to burgeoning adulthood over the course of Persepolis.
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