The Surprising Power of Personal Narrative
After reading the first assigned book of the year in my ASTU class, Persepolis by Marjane Santrapi, I was left wondering what the author’s objective was in writing out her childhood into a memoir. In class Dr. Luger explained that Santrapi had stated that she set out to counter the negative western narrative of Iran and to share her own perspective on the revolution and war in Iran. Although that answered my question, it also raised some new ones like why did the author choose a narrative of her childhood to counter the…read more