Since its publication in 2003 Marijane Satrapi's Persepolis series, it has met surprisingly little negative criticism in comparison to other recent, highly commercialized memoirs written by Iranian women. For instance, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran has sparked an intere…
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A program of representation was designed during the reign of Darius I (522-486 B. C.) in which, in the metaphorical language of Achaemenid art, the concept of the seat of the king was applied to the throne object, to the palatial complex of Parsa/Persepolis at the center of the …
This six-month qualitative study draws from critical sociocultural theories of literacy (Street, 2007; Enciso, 2007; Moje, 2007) to explore the social discourses invoked and produced during two classroom literacy events around the Iranian graphic novel, Persepolis, by Marjane Sa…