Iranian women in the memoir: comparing reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis (1) and (2)

This text investigates the various reasons behind the elevation of the memoir, previously categorised as a marginalized form of life writing that denudes the private space of women, especially in Western Asian countries such as Iran.

Through a comparative investigation of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (1) and (2), the book examines the way both narrative and graphic memoirs offer possibilities for Iranian women to reclaim new territory, transgress a post-traumatic revolution, and reconstruct a new model of womanhood that evades socio-political and religious restrictions.