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Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: Relying on social science theories to elucidate Persepolis, Elahi makes a connection between Satrapi's desire to
reframe Iranian and Western misrepresentations of Iran and the literal framing of the art panels in her graphic memoir, which often
show Satrapi to be making use of mirroring techniques and double framing to suggest the divided identity of the protagonist.

Crossing Cultures/Crossing Genres: The Re-Invention of the Graphic Memoir in Persepolis and Persepolis 2: In this essay, Basu suggests that Satrapi's "Persepolis" books reinterpret the graphic novel--
a narrative form traditionally used by Western men--to incorporate depictions of both women's and Iranian identities that are vastly
different from other Iranian memoirs, thereby offering a catalyst for investigating differences between Eastern and Western
ideologies.

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: Eluding the Frames. ) In analyzing Persepolis, Miller adopts the spatial theories of art historian and cultural theorist Griselda Pollock,
exploring the operation of three spatial registers in the work: the specific geographic locations referenced, including the opposition
between public and private space; the spatial arrangement of the artwork and various framing devices; and the psychic space
occupied by Satrapi herself.

Occidentalism: 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."

The experience of marginalisation in the process of discovering identity in Out of Place and Persepolis.

Perceiving Persepolis: Personal Narrative, Sense Memories and Visual Simplicity in Marjane Sartrapi's Animated Autobiography.

Graphic Novels combine literary texts with graphic illustrations to target a variety of readers.