English Literature ENLT (ENLT)

Persepolis begins with the author’s internal adjustments to wearing the veil, as well as others around her. For the western audience that enjoys the graphic novel and the film adaptation, this struggle is usually framed in sweeping criticism of women’s loss of freedoms and rights, and what professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi calls an attempt to “deamonize and “orientalize” [sic] Iran” (DePaul, “Man With a Country“).