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2008 Many Voices Resources

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.

Persepolis. Directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. Culver City, Calif.: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.

Biography of Marjane Satrapi

Basic information about Iran from the CIA World Fact Book.

Marjane Satrapi responding to the question of whether Persepolis is an anti-Iranian movie

Marjane Satrapi talks about reading graphic novels as a child

Books and articles about Iran available at Augsburg

"Iran -- a History." New Internationalist no. 398 (2007): 14.

Felton, John. The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

Kazemipur, Abdolmohammad. "Religious Life Under Theocracy: The Case of Iran." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42, no. 3 (2003): 347.

Mafinezam, Alidad and Aria Mehrabi. Iran and its Place among Nations. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008.

Keddie, Nikki R., Yann Richard, and Nikki R. Keddie. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003.

Price, Massoume. Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook. Ethnic Diversity within Nations. Santa Barbara, Calif.; Denver, Colorado: Abc-Clio, 2005.

Books and articles about Persepolis available at Augsburg

"Not so Black-and-White." Current Events 107, no. 14 (2008): 6.

Carter, James Bucky. Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2007.

Chute, Hillary. "The Texture of Retracing in Marjane Satrapi'S Persepolis." Women's Studies Quarterly 36, no. 1/2 (2008): 92.

Freund, Charles Paul. "Subversive Style." Reason 35, no. 5 (2003): 64.

Heath, Jennifer. The Veil :Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Lewis, Franklin and Farzin Yazdanfar. In a Voice of their Own: A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written since the Revolution of 1979. Bibliotheca Iranica. Vol. 4. Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1996.

Malek, Amy. "Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production: A Case Study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Series." Iranian Studies 39, no. 3 (2006): 353.

Notkin, Debbie. "Groing Up Graphic." The Women's Review of Books 20, no. 9 (2003): 8.

Parker, Emily. "Words and Pictures of an Iranian Exile." The Wall Street Journal 250, no. 145 (2007): D9.

Satrapi, Marjane. "Why I Wrote Persepolis." Writing 26, no. 3 (2003): 9.

Scott, A. In a Flat World, a Rebel with a Cause. New-York [N.Y.: H.J. Raymond Co.], 2007.

Tensuan, Theresa M. "Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi." Modern Fiction Studies 52, no. 4 (2006): 947.

Whitlock, Gillian. "Autographics: The Seeing 'I' of the Comics." Modern Fiction Studies 52, no. 4 (2006): 965.

Wyatt, Neal. "Reel Fiction: Read the Book, Watch the Movie." Library Journal 133, no. 1 (2008): 159.