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PERSEPOLIS REVISION

PERSEPOLIS

REVISION

Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi 

Movieweb interview (2010)

1. Is the story of Persepolis an autobiographical story?
2. What inspired Satrapi to make Persepolis?
3. How does Satrapi describe a humanistic message conveyed in Persepolis? 

What does PERSEPOLIS mean? 

Persepolis: a postmodern fiction / memoir

Postmodern literature:

• reflects radical changes the world underwent after the end of WW 2;

• tends to conceptualize the world as being impossible to strictly define or understand;

• argues that knowledge and facts are always relative to particular situations and that it is both futile and impossible to attempt to locate any precise meaning to ideas, concepts, or events.
  

POSTMODERN LITERATURE

   Persepolis                                                            1 German expressionism

   Pastiche                                                               2 Persian Miniature Painting

                                                                                  3 Shadow puppetry

German Expressionism is a cultural movement that is challenging to define as it is not distinguished by a singular style or method of creation, but rather is better described by both the mindset of the artist creating the work and the generation he or she lived in. The German Expressionists were artists, writers, and thinkers who were of age in Germany prior to World War II, and lived during Wilhelm II’s reign. 

A Persian miniature  is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. 

Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. ... Various effects can be achieved by moving both the puppets and the light source.

German Expressionism developed as a result of the younger generation’s reaction against the bourgeois culture of Germany during this time period.

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German Expressionism is a cultural movement that is challenging to define as it is not distinguished by a singular style or method of creation, but rather is better described by both the mindset of the artist creating the work and the generation he or she lived in. The German Expressionists were artists, writers, and thinkers who were of age in Germany prior to World War II, and lived during Wilhelm II’s reign. German Expressionism developed as a result of the younger generation’s reaction against the bourgeois culture of Germany during this time period.

Temporal distortion. Non-linear timelines. 

Temporal distortion: use of non-linear timelines and narrative techniques in a story.

In contrast to linear narratives, non-linear narratives are those in which the author has chosen to jump around in time, and the order in which events are portrayed does not correspond to the order in which things happened. These might also be referred to as disrupted or disjointed narratives.

Magical realism. Reader's involvement.

Magical realism: introduction of impossible or unrealistic events without clearly defining what is factual or what is fictional.

Reader’s involvement: often through direct address to the reader and the open acknowledgement of the fictional nature of the events being described.

Truth is a matter of perspective. 

Postmodernism sees history as something that was socially constructed, determined by signifying practices. Deconstruction holds that there are many truths and that there are ‘no grand narratives*’ or a single unifying ‘Truth’.

Histories are shaped by those in power, they are skewed. Postmodernism favours local narrative as alternative. The accounts of events coming from marginalised are more close to real history. In Persepolis, we see a girl Marji who actually existed in history, was marginalised by Revolution in Iran, the story coming from her is her actual experience. In this way Marji questions the established history textbooks that portray Iran or East as threat or danger in Western discourse. She gives a totally different apparent in Persepolis, that Iran is not all about fundamentalism or terrorism.

Marjane Satrapi (1969)

"If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the 'basement' of a country, not on the surface. That is why I wanted people in other countries to read Persepolis, to see that I grew up just as other children do.“

What does this panel reveal about Marjane's perception of the Revolution? 

How does perception of veil in this panel varry? 

The top panel page 28. Based on the clues from the first three pages of this section. how does Cyrus feel about Shah? How do you know? 

Referring to your contextual understanding of Persepolis, explain the foreshadowing conveyed on this page. 

What stylistic devices are used in this panel? Explain how these features help shape the meaning.

     SYMBOLISM

Read pages 85 and 86 and explain the last panel in chapoter F_14s. 

What stylistic feature is used on page 102? 

Explain the pannel on your right hand-side. What textual feature does Satrapi use in this pannel? How does it shape the meaning of the novel? 

What postmodern characteristic featured does Satrapi's painting reveal? 

What textual feature does Satrapi use in these two pannels, and how does this textual feature shape the meaning of this chapter? 

Explain the symbolism of this page.

What does the sentence ' I Had conformed to society' mean? 

 31 okt. 2022

Over the weekend Coldplay interrupted their concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to invite exiled Iranian actor Golshifteh Farahani on stage to join them as they sang the anthem of the Iranian protest movement Baraye.