Coming back to censorship by American schools, after Maus was banned from a school in Tennessee, Marjane Satrapi’s award-winning graphic novel Persepolis, with a theme of the Iranian revolution, was released. she was banned from a US school.
The Franklin Regional School District, a school district in Pennsylvania, removed Persepolis from his curriculum. The reason lies in the presence of swear words and disturbing scenes in the graphic novel, such as B. the representation of Violence that the protagonists of the story had to endure during the events narrated.
“I was amazed at the scenes of violence and torture‘ said Carla Williamson, member of the Commission that approved the ban of Persepolis from the school program. “I don’t think it’s appropriate here, and I don’t think it’s appropriate in a classroom“.
“We have important work to do in relation to our timetable, what our students are reading and how they are learning to thinksaid Gennaro Piraino, superintendent of the Franklin School District.Is this an appropriate comic for a first grader? We’ve talked about that, but there’s more. We cannot withhold our program of dialogue and exchange of ideas… But we have no intention of teaching Marxism. We don’t want to teach critical race theory, which is a college course. I’m proud of this fellowship and the discussions we’ve had, and I still want to offer my child the opportunity to read stories about guys who don’t look like him or who don’t pray like him.“.
Persepolis is a graphic novel that was published between 2000 and 2003 it tells in an autobiographical way the childhood of the author Marjane Satrapi in the time of the Iranian revolution. In 2007, the comic received an adaptation in animated form, directed by Satrapi himself and Vincent Paronnaud, who also received an Oscar nomination (here our review of Persepolis).
