Many Voices
- 2008 RESOURCES
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.
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.
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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.
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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.