The Complete Persepolis by Marjane
Satrapi
(Book jacket from http://www.amazon.com, 3/31/08)
Incoming Agnes Scott students will be reading
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi as
part of ASC 101 in the Fall of 2008. The book, which also has been adapted
into the animated movie Persepolis, and nominated
for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, is a graphic memoir about Satrapi’s
coming of age during Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979. Satrapi, an intelligent,
outspoken only child, the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter
of Iran's last emperor, bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined
with the history of her country.
Originally published to wide critical acclaim
in France, The Complete Persepolis vividly dramatizes
the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued
by political upheaval. It tells the story of Satrapi’s high school
years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family;
of her homecoming, both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed
exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and
adolescence at once outrageous and familiar—a young life bound up
with the tumultuous history of Iran, yet filled with the universal trials
and joys of growing up.
To support this campus-wide common reading,
McCain Library has compiled a bibliography featuring the book, journal
articles and online resources. The bibliography also features other books
by the author, books on women in Iran and the Middle East, and books and
articles about the genre of graphic narratives, all available in the McCain
Library collection. As part of our campus discussion of The
Complete Persepolis, the college
will be hosting a visit by Scott McCloud, author of Understanding
Comics, who will be at Agnes Scott on September 16 and 17, 2008.
McCloud is a practicing graphic artist, and he will give a public lecture
on graphic narratives (with a focus on The Complete Persepolis)
on September 16. McCloud’s books and his web site can be found in
the “Books, Articles and Web Sites on Graphic Narratives”
section of the bibliography.
Books
Satrapi, Marjane. Ajdar. Paris:
Nathan, 2002. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. Bordados.
Barcelona: Norma Editorial, 2004. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. Chicken with Plums.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. PN6747.S245 P4713 2007
- Browsing - 1st Floor.
Satrapi, Marjane. Embroideries.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. English 101 writing
and critical inquiry: readings selected to accompany the Western Reads
book for 2006-2007: Persepolis. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's,
2007. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. "How can one
be Persian?" In Azam Zanganeh, Lila (ed.) My Sister,
Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006. Available through Interlibrary
Loan
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New
York: Pantheon Books, 2003. PN6747.S245 P4713 - Browsing - 1st Floor.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis 2: The
Story of a Return. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. Available
at DeKalb County Public Library
and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persépolis
3. Barcelona: Norma Editorial, 2004. Available through
Interlibrary Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persépolis
4: Spanish. Barcelona: Norma Editorial, 2004. Available
through Interlibrary Loan.
Satrapi, Marjane & Davis, Jill. Monsters
are afraid of the moon. New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books,
2006. Available at DeKalb
County Public Library.
Satrapi, Marjane & Dohmen, Toon. De
Muzikant. Amsterdam: Atlas, 2005. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Books, Articles and Web Sites on Graphic Narratives
Chute, Hillary and M. DeKoven. “Introduction:
Graphic Narrative”. Modern Fiction Studies 52.4 (2006)
767-782.
McCloud, Scott. Reinventing Comics.
New York: Perennial, 2000. PN6710 .M34 - New Materials - 1st Floor
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics:
The Invisible Art. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. PN6710
.M335 - Stack 2
McCloud’s web site: http://www.scottmccloud.com/home/scott/scott.html#
SIGNs:
Studies in Graphic Narratives - International Journal for the History
of Early Comics and Sequential Art
Books on Women in Iran
and the Middle East (in the library collection*)
Afkhami, Mahnaz & Friedl, Erika. In
the Eye of the Storm : Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Syracuse,
N.Y: Syracuse University Press, c1994. HQ1735.2 .I49 - Stack 1
Alizadeh, Parvin. The economy of Iran:
Dilemmas of an Islamic State. London; New York: I.B. Tauris;
New York: Distributed by St. Martins Press, 2000. HC475 .E28 - Stack
1
Ansari, Sarah F. D. & Martin, Vanessa.
Women, religion and culture in Iran. Richmond, Surrey
: Curzon in association with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain
and Ireland, 2002. BP173.4 .W665 - 1st Floor
Bos, Matthijs van den. Mystic regimes
[electronic resource]: Sufism and the state in Iran, from the late Qajar
era to the Islamic Republic. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill, 2002.
BP188.8.I7 B67 2002eb
Brosius, Maria. Women in ancient Persia,
559-331 BC. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996. HQ1130 .B76 1996 - Stack 1 or HQ1130
.B76 1998eb
Doumani, Beshara. Family history
in the Middle East [electronic resource] household, property, and gender.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. HQ663.3
.F36 2003eb
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Remembering
childhood in the Middle East [electronic resource]: memoirs from a century
of change. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. DS61.5
.R46 2002eb
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Women and
the family in the Middle East: new voices of change. Austin:
University of Texas Press, c1985. HQ1784 .W65 - Stack 1
Göçek, Fatma Müge &
Balaghi, Shiva. Reconstructing gender in the Middle East: tradition,
identity, and power. New York: Columbia University Press, c1994.
HQ1726.5 .R43 - Stack 1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. Islam and gender:
the religious debate in contemporary Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1999. HQ1735.2 .M55 - Stack 1
Najmabadi, Afsaneh. The story of
the daughters of Quchan [electronic resource]: gender and national memory
in Iranian history. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press,
1998. HQ1735.2.Z9 Q36 1998eb
Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with mustaches
and men without beards [electronic resource]: gender and sexual anxieties
of Iranian modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2005. HQ1735.2 .N35 2005eb
Owen, Roger. State, power and politics
in the making of the modern Middle East [electronic resource]. London;
New York: Routledge, 2004. DS63
.O94 2004eb
Parsipur, Shahrnush. Women without
men [electronic resource]: a novella. Translated from the Persian
by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University
Press, 1998. PK6561.P247 Z3613
1998eb
Saikal, Amin & Schnabel, Albrecht. Democratization
in the Middle East [electronic resource]: experiences, struggles, challenges.
Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003. JQ1758.A91
D466 2003eb
Shahidian, Hammed. Women in Iran.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. HQ1735.2 .S53 v.1&
2 - Stack 1
*Follow provided links to find electronic
books (e-books), click here
for help in accessing e-books off-campus.
Journal & Popular Press Articles,
Reviews and Interviews
Adams, Sam. Persepolis.
Film Comment, Nov/Dec2007, 43 (6) 
Anonymous. Under
the Veil. Read, Stamford: Mar 14, 2008. 57 (14)
The
Art of Words and Pictures. New Statesman, 9/25/2006, 135
(4811)
Attenberg, Jami. Needle
Points. Print, May/Jun2005, 59 (3)
Brophy-Warren, Jamin. Marjane
Satrapi. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Ed., 12/15/07, 250
(141) 
Buchanan, Kyle. Biting
wit. Advocate, 1/29/2008 1001
Davis, Rocío G. A
graphic self: comics as autobiography in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis.
Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 2005 Dec; 27 (3)
Doherty, Kevin Macguffin & Cunneen, Joseph.
Women
in dangerous places. National Catholic Reporter, 2/8/2008,
44 (12)
Douglas, Carol Anne. Persepolis:
The Story of a Childhood. Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr2005, 35
(3/4)
Eberstadt, Fernanda. God
looked like Marx: A memoir in pictures about growing up in 1980's Tehran.
New York Times Book Review, New York: May 11, 2003
Edelstein, David. It's
a gusher! New York, 12/24/2007, 40 (46)
Freund, Charles Paul. Subversive
style. Reason, Oct 2003, 35 (5)
Gopalan, Nisha. The
life story ('persepolis'). Entertainment Weekly, 11/9/2007
963
Hajdu, David. Persian
miniatures. Artforum, New York: Oct/Nov 2004. 11, (3)
Harold, Rahul. Persepolis.
Cineaste, Winter2007, 33 (1)
Hitchens, Christopher. The
Persian version. Atlantic Monthly (10727825), Jul/Aug2006,
297 (6)
Hohenadel, Kristin. An
animated adventure, drawn from life. New York Times, 1/21/2007,
156 (53831)
Kadivar, Darius. Persepolis.
Middle East, Aug/Sep2007 381
Kutschera, Chris. Every
picture tells a story. Middle East, London: Apr 2002, 322
Malek, Amy. Memoir
as Iranian exile cultural production: a case study of Marjane Satrapi's
Persepolis series. Iranian Studies: Journal of the International
Society for Iranian Studies, 2006 Sept; 39 (3)
McLaughlin,Lisa. Girl,
expatriated. Time, New York: Aug 23, 2004. 164 (8)
Naghibi, Nima & O'Malley, Andrew. Estranging
the familiar: "East" and "West" in Satrapi's Persepolis1.
English Studies in Canada, Edmonton: Jun-Sep 2005. 31 (2/3)
Parker, Emily.
A cultural conversation with Marjane Satrapi: words and pictures of
an Iranian exile. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition,
12/20/2007, 250 (145)
Press, Joy. Veil
of tears. The Village Voice, New York: May 7-May 13, 2003.
48 (19)
Root, Robert. Interview
with Marjane Satrapi. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction,
2007; 9 (2)
Ryan, Jennifer D. “Black
Female Authorship and the African American Graphic Novel: Historical
Responsibility in Icon: A Hero's Welcome.” Modern Fiction
Studies 52.4 (2006): 918-946.
Satrapi, Marjane. Pages
from Persepolis 2: the story of a return. Women's Studies Quarterly,
Spring/Summer2006, 34 (1/2)
Satrapi, Marjane. Why
I wrote Persepolis. Writing, Nov/Dec2003, 26 (3)
Scott, A. O.
In a flat world, a rebel with a cause. New York Times, 12/25/2007,
157 (54169)
Solomon, Deborah. Revolutionary
spirit. New York Times, 10/21/2007, 157 (54104)
Tarlo, Emma. Marjane
Satrapi's Persepolis: a sartorial review. Fashion Theory: The
Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, Jun/Sep2007, 11 ( 2/3)
Tensuan, Theresa M. Comic
visions and revisions in the work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi.
Modern Fiction Studies, Winter2006, 52 (4)
Travers, Peter. Persepolis.
Rolling Stone, 1/24/2008 1044
Walt, Vivienne. Never
mind the Mullahs. Mother Jones, Jan/Feb2008, 33 (1)
Whitlock, Gillian. Autographics:
the seeing 'I' of the comics. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,
2006 Winter; 52 (4)
Web Resources
Dupont, Joan. “Marjane
Satrapi at Cannes: An Iranian Graphic Novelist's Coming of Age.”
International Herald Tribune. 22 May 2007.
14 Apr. 2008
El Bicho. “Graphic
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Marcus, Richard. “Graphic
Novel Review: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.” Weblog
Entry. BC: Blogcritics Magazine 23 Jan. 2008.
14 Apr. 2008
“[Marjane
Satrapi…2006 Seattle Reads].” Washington Center for the Book. Seattle
Public Library. 2006 “
Includes An
Evening with Marjane Satrapi [video] and “Reading Group Toolbox:”
14 Apr. 2008. About
the Author | Questions
for Discussion |
About Graphic Novels | Recommended
Reading | Book
Club How To's
“Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi: Common Book 2007-08.” Century College Common
Book Project. Century College, White Bear Lake, MN. [2007?].
14 Apr. 2008
“Persepolis
- Marjane Satrapi. The Complete Review. 2003-2007. 14 Apr. 2008
Includes its review,
summaries of reviews, and links to reviews.
“Reader’s
Guide: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Written by Marjane Satrapi.”
Random House n.d.
14 Apr. 2008
Satrapi, Marjane. Interview
with Tavis Smiley. Tavis Smiley. Public Broadcasting Serv. KCET,
Los Angeles. 17 Jan. 2008. Transcript.
14 April 2008
Compiled by Esther Ojo and
Gayle Christian.
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