Episode 26
March 19, 2020
Persepolis
Hosted by Chris Piuma and Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Marjane Satrapi was ten years old at the start of the Iranian Revolution, and her comics memoir Persepolis explores what it was like to grow up in that environment. It’s a story of the Iranian Revolution, which began in 1979, but it’s also the story of one individual life in a time of great crisis, moving into the Iranian diaspora. Chris and Suzanne discuss this personal story of revolution, how a child’s understanding of events can be useful for introducing topics to readers, and the difficulties of talking about comics on podcasts.
Show Notes.
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis. [Bookshop.]
Happy Nowruz!
Haft sin, the seven items beginning with S.
Art Spiegelman: Maus.
Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics.
The 2500 year celebration of the Persian Empire.
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Other works mentioned by Marjane Satrapi: Embroideries, Chicken with Plums.
Marjane Satrapi on her new film Radioactive, about Marie Curie.
A conversation with Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman.
Emma Watson interviews Marjane Satrapi.
Next: Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron. [Gutenberg.]
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