![]() ![]() ![]() Those life experiences, that, in a sense, are traumatic, become source for the autobiographic graphic novel Persepolis. Her unfixed identity, constructed by the articulation of her own interests and the positionality society imposes over her, according to terms defined by Hall, has been influenced by the location Marji’s persona finds herself, being in Iran or Austria, home or exile. Persepolis subverts the Western gaze that locates the Iranians in a position as the other and shows a more complex life in Iran through Marji’s identity construction. ![]() Based on Edward Said’s book Orientalism that describes the process in which the people from the Middle East are constructed as all the same by the West, and Stuart Hall’s concept of identity, I shall discuss how Marjane Satrapi uses the graphic novel format in Persepolis, for the construction of Marji’s identity. ![]()
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