Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis makes important strides toward changing the way Western audiences perceive Iranian women. Satrapi strives to show the intersection of the lives of some Westerners with her life as an Iranian, who spent time in the West. Satrapi, dissatisfied with the representations she saw of Iranian women in France, decided to challenge them. According to her: “Since my arrival in France in 1994, I always told my friends stories about life in Iran. We saw reports about Iran on television, but they didn't represent my experience at all. I had to keep saying, “No, it’s not like that over there. » For almost twenty years I have been justifying why it is not negative to be Iranian. How strange is it when it’s not something I did or chose to be? (Satrapi, “Why I Wrote Persepolis” 10). By acknowledging both Eastern and Western feminism, Satrapi's novel humanizes the Iranian female perspective in a way that can be easily digested by Western audiences. This novel acts as an autoethnographic text, a term coined by Mary Louise Pratt, in which Persepolis acts as "a text in which people undertake to describe themselves in a way that engages with the representations that others have made of themselves of them” (Pratt 35). This novel, which traces his life to date, demonstrates a mastery of spaces of representation. As one theorist has argued: "In discussing Persepolis in relation to the theme of women and space, we will draw on a framework suggested by Pollock for reading the work of women artists...Pollock refers to three spatial registers : firstly, the places represented by the work (and in particular the distribution between public space and private space); secondly, the spatial order within the work itself (regarding, for example, the angle...... middle of paper... and in doing so, modified Western perceptions. Works Cited Gökarıksel , Banu and Anna Secor, The Veil, Desire and the Gaze: Turning the Interior, 40, 1 (Fall 2014): 177-200. Miller, Ann “Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: Eluding the Frames: Johns Hopkins University. Press: The Creative Spirit, Vol. 51, n° 1, spring 2011: 38-52. “Nego-feminism: theorizing, practicing and pruning the signs of Africa, vol. , Winter 2004, 357-385. Satrapi, Marjane. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. PrintSatrapi, Marjane “Why I Wrote Persepolis: A Graphic Novel: Writer Marjane Satrapi Faced.” to the challenges of life in post-revolutionary Iran. graphic novel format to tell its unique story. » Marjane Satrapi. Inc..