Occidentalism: Rewriting the West in Marjane Satrapi's Persépolis

Leservot, Typhaine

doi:10.1353/frf.2011.0004

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“…The discourses of Iranian nationalism explained in the previous section, have also involved as many Persian intellectuals did in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuryactively encouraging the westernization of Persia (Leservot 2011). This version of Occidentalism, albeit growingly criticized by intellectuals during the twentieth century, continues to exist until today.…”

Section: Westernism and The Construction Of The 'Other'mentioning

confidence: 95%

When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium

Rahbari

2020

Contemporary Politics

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In Flanders-Belgium, a Belgo-Iranian politician has gained nationwide attention for her critique of Islam. Safai's political discourses are built around her opposition to the violation of women's rights in Iran, and to the hijab as a political-patriarchal symbol. Through this latter opposition, she has gained prominence among Flemish nationalists. The emphasis in Safai's discourses has been on using Iranian gender politics to frame her antagonism to Islam as opposed to a patriarchal political ideology and the supposed progressive elite who threaten the secular order. Sparking fear of political Islam-in her words, 'you should be more scared'1-and gender as her subject matter has gained Safai acceptance not only among some Belgian and Flemish, but also among some Iranian nationalists. This paper investigates Safai's gender activism and femonationalism featured in online media to show how emancipatory gender discourses are employed in the service of right-wing agendas.

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Section: Westernism and The Construction Of The 'Other'mentioning

confidence: 95%

When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium

Rahbari

2020

Contemporary Politics

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“…Even though Said himself did not envision a symmetrical analytical field to Orientalism called Occidentalism, anthropologists and cultural scholars nevertheless began using the term to explore "essentialized simplifications of the West," particularly in Eastern contexts. 8 Some of its proponents go as far as to argue that Said's Orientalism necessarily implies the concept. 9 While in some respects similar to Orientalism, Occidentalism does not denote equivalent power dynamics in Eastern constructions of the West; rather, Occidentalism addresses various phenomena outside the West that reference it, ranging from hateful caricatures of the West to the adoption and propagation of Western forms of cultural production and media (so-called "Westernization").…”

Section: Which West? Occidentalisms and The Americasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benedicto Sáenz 'Libera Me': Occidentalisms in Latin America Nineteenth-Century Sacred Music

Pineda¹

2022

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This article uses concepts of Occidentalism and the musical analysis of a funerary responsory by nineteenth-century Guatemalan composer Benedicto Sáenz (1807-1857) to examine possible reasons why music from nineteenth-century Latin America remains relatively neglected in the region and beyond, unlike the better explored repertoires from colonial times and from the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries. Based on Latin American postcolonial notions of Occidentalism as the construction of the Western Hemisphere by Western Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and analysis of Sáenzs responsory Libera Me within the context of changing political, social, and musical trends in nineteenth-century Guatemala, I argue that nineteenth-century music in Latin America reflects local struggles to engage with two competing models of European modernity: the "first modernity" of the Spanish colonial empire and the "second modernity" of the Enlightenment, Liberalism, and the French Revolution. Responding to influences from both modernities, Libera Me expresses local European habiti that do not fit Orientalist narratives of Latin American Otherness or nationalist narratives of local distinctiveness which have influenced the musical historiography in the region.

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“…This is not unique for Persepolis, as there are numerous examples of artists from Iran, expatriates like Satrapi but also artists living and working in Iran, intentionally or subconsciously using patterns and conventions from ancient Persian visual cultures to convey contemporary messages. 120 That this integration of Persian art forms is at least partially intended in Persepolis is indicated not only by the title, referring to a well-known capital of the ancient Persian Empire where many of the referenced Persian friezes were situated, 121 but also by the fact that in a section of the narrative that takes place in Europe, 122 the connections to Persian art forms all but disappear in the visual elements, not only in the diegetic representations of environments but in the art in general.…”

Section: Narrative Themementioning

confidence: 99%

Schemata in the Graphic Novel Persepolis

Strömberg

2020

European Comic Art

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It has repeatedly been suggested that the art in the graphic novel Persepolis by Iranian French artist Marjane Satrapi contains numerous connections to ancient Persian art forms, to the point of this becoming a ‘truism’, although the claim has not been subjected to in-depth analysis. The present formal analysis employs Gombrichian schema theory to identify visual elements in the graphic novel potentially connected to Persian visual cultures to discern if and how they might relate to their proposed influences and how they integrate with styles and visual conventions in comics. The results indicate that there are indeed connections, although integrated into the art form of comics through combination and accommodation, and that this reinforced the Persian theme of the graphic novel and potentially enriched the art form of comics.

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Occidentalism: Rewriting the West in Marjane Satrapi's Persépolis

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium

When gender turns right: racializing Islam and femonationalism in online political discourses in Belgium

Benedicto Sáenz 'Libera Me': Occidentalisms in Latin America Nineteenth-Century Sacred Music

Schemata in the Graphic Novel Persepolis

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