Zeina abirached marjane satrapi biography

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Zeina abirached marjane satrapi biography: Cartoonist and animator Zeina Abirached

We suggest using the recommended databases first, but Google Scholar can offer additional sources. If you need more, check our advanced guide to Database Search Tips. Satrapi, Marjane. By applying terminology from trauma theory and a methodological approach from comics scholarship, this essay discusses three graphic autobiographies of women.

Anjali Singh, Two issues are at the centre of the investigation: the strategies by which these works engage in the much-debated issues of representing gendered violence, and the representation of the ways traumatized daughters and their mothers deal with the identity crises caused by war. The authors discuss these works, all autobiographies, in light of the theme of girls in need of rescue in colonial histories.

The authors address themes of race, girlhood, transnationalism, neoliberalism, and postcolonialism in the texts in light of feminist studies. The article analyzes the rhetorical presentation of cultural, national, religious and personal identity negotiations in the books "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" and "Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return," by Marjane Satrapi.

Readers were urged to examine their Western identity and perspective on Iranian identity in the identity negotiation portrayal.