Marjane Satrapi Biography
Marjane Satrapi Biography
Marjane Satrapi was born November 22nd, 1969 in Rasht, Iran. Marjane found herself growing up in the time of the political turmoil. As a child she witnessed the Iranian political regime and fleeing civil liberties of Iran’s citizens that led to the ‘Islamic Revolution’, including the fall of the Shah, the first years of the Iran vs. Iraq war and the Ayatollah Khomeini regime. As a child she attended Lycee Francais, a French non-religious bilingual school. As the growing oppression on civil liberties continued and light of her independent spirit, Satrapi’s parents sent her to Vienna, Austria in 1983 at the age of 14. Marjane spent her adolescence in Austria, returning to Iran for college. In college she met her husband Reza and was briefly married until being divorced.
Satrapi moved to Strasbourg, France shortly after her divorce, where she studied illustration and eventually landed in Paris, France where she met David B., a French comic artist to whom which she adopted a similar style. After joining the Atelier des Vosges, and after her peers heard her life stories and seen her drawings, she was encouraged to create a comic book out of which the Persepolis series was born. Persepolis and Persepolis 2, the autobiographical graphic novels, are vivid portraits that are based on Satrapi’s everyday life experiences up through college.
Besides writing Persepolis and Persepolis 2, Satrapi has published other works which include Embroideries and Bordados. Of her published works, a couple have won distinguished awards and Satrapi has seen Persepolis adapted into an animated film which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007.
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Why is Marjane so excited to have relatives that suffered in the war and that spent time as prisoners? And how is this mentality different from the government's glorification of the martyrs?
Posted by: Katherine Nelson | October 19, 2007 8:27 PM
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Marjane Prompt
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10/20/07
The Persepolis is easy book to read, however, it is tone is not set by what liberations mean to the diverse people. Marjane was so excited and not so excited at some time to have relatives who have suffered the war and that spent as prisoners because she believed that liberation must be one way and that way should be simple of an adoptions of well-known formula, as Fanon states in his articles that “Let’s win over the women and the rest will follow.� (37)
This formula teaches that not to value one’s culture but should imitate to others, and it does not popular in many Muslim societies although it has been reached there for long time a go. Many Muslim women rejected this formula because they value about what Hijab (Cloth that covers the body) meant to them. In Islam, little girls can go to school without head Scarf until they reach the puberty, and Scarf is a symbolic liberation of Muslim women.
When I filter this book, I do realize that it has misconceptions about Muslim women’s right, and her Islamic values in Islam while she uses her government glorification. She pictures Scarf as something dislike for Muslims and Iranian government can force to women to be strict as she states in her Comic book “The fundamentalist woman� (75), and she shows that Muslim woman who wears her Suit. And the following line she shows that the woman who wears other cloth while her hear is shown up in front and she named that “The modern woman (75).
Marjane point of view, she sees a liberation of freedom on her own way, it should be colony way. However, she is not excited what happened in her country and this comic book is far away from the reality as she states in her introduction of this book “I know that this image is far from the truth.�(First page), and this is her first point she makes at first page in order to be aware of our differences. We are diverse community who has different cultures and religions. Also she does not want those who fight for their freedom has been forgotten. In order to entertain people, she makes ugly jokes through Scarf she states that “It’s too hot out! … Ooh I’m the monster of darkness� (3). The veil and Scarf are respected cloth in Muslim countries, but is not that much known at the non Muslim countries. So she uses her brain in order to have her audience’s attentions. To me, as soon I started reading Persepolis, I could stop several times, any way I finished reading it because it was an assignments. I still questioning that, is it right some one who is not Muslim to speak on behave of Muslim women? I think it will be great job if we leave every person to write about his or her field.
Posted by: Qamar Ali | October 20, 2007 2:10 PM
Marjane seems incredibly well informed and intelligent for a girl of her age. Does political upheaval require one to grow up faster? How does this change their view of the world?
Posted by: Cindy Long | October 20, 2007 3:13 PM
Marjane was born into a financially comfortable environment. In what ways did this affect her, both positively and negatively, and how did this shape her character?
Posted by: Kadi Storms | October 20, 2007 5:27 PM
Why Marjane speaks about the scarf? And it's true that young girls has been forced to wear it before their adulthood?Do you agree or disagee with her why or why not?
Posted by: Qamar Ali | October 20, 2007 6:04 PM
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