Representing Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis

• In Event: What Fiction Can Tell Us About Where & How We Belong

Brief Overview

The paper examines biographies and memoirs by those Iranians who grew up and were educated in the US and the West to see how Iran and her culture are presented with focus on Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’ Persepolis.

Author

• Sangjun Jeong, Seoul National University