Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel, Persepolis, describes the struggle that women face to be their authentic selves in a global culture with unrealistic expectations for women.
Elizabeth Marshall and Leigh Gilmore’s article Girls In Crisis: Rescue and Transnational Feminist Autobiographical Resistance, explores the importance of female autobiographers, and the role of female coming of age stories.
Gilmore and Marshall claim that Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography Persepolis, although it describes a specific and unique experience, serves as a relevant example of a transition from girlhood to womanhood.
Satrapi’s choice to form Persepolis as a graphic novel creates a reliable and sympathetic narrator.
Marji can illustrate women and girls as one
The young girls in head scarves are indistinguishable from the adults.
¨[Satrapi] captures the complexity of controlling women is part of the Cultural Revolution and some women support it¨ (Marshal 7).
