Persepolis deploys all the paranoid Expressionism latent in. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her high school years in Vienna facing. She paints a thick inky black-on-white, in a faux-naïf pastiche of East and West. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre. Satrapi’s drawing style is bold and vivid. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.nEdgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom-Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.nYou've never seen anything like Persepolis–the intimacy of a memoir, the irresistibility of a comic book, and the political depth of the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval of her 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. Satrapi’s narrative in The Complete Persepolis focuses on a gendered and discursive manifestation of women, culture, and identity, problematizing a purely locational politics of global-local or core-periphery in favor of viewing the lines cutting across these locations.

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