Article 8Occidentalism: Rewriting the West in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. Leservot considers Persepolis an important contribution to francophone postcolonial studies because it
reveals the complexity of Iran's ideological construction of the West. According to Leservot, Satrapi shows Iranian Occidentalism to
be composed of different versions, dependent upon one's political outlook after the Islamic Revolution, "more a product, ironically, of
Fundamentalist Islam than ... of western neo-colonialism."