Category: marjane satratpi

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We Must Keep You Afraid Because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis covers a large period of time following the Islamic Revolution in Iran during the later 1970s. While the memoir traces Satrapi’s journey as her and her family navigate the authoritarianism that followed the revolution, her own experiences and insight provide us with insights into the psychological impacts of authoritarianism and the ways that it works to essentially squash any form of self-thought and … Read More We Must Keep You Afraid Because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

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World Literature and Graphic Novel Syllabus

Last semester, I taught a course entitled The Reverberations of World War II where students read works by Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, Magda Szabó, Intizar Husain, and Yasa Katsuei. The course focused, specifically, on the lead up to the war (Katsuei), the war itself (Seghers, Serge, and Szabó), and the aftermath of the war (Szabó and Husain) across the world from Korea to France to Hungary … Read More World Literature and Graphic Novel Syllabus