The Construction of the Identities of the character Marji in the comic Persépolis

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/DLv18a2024-5

Keywords:

Identity, Beliefs, Attitudes, Persépolis

Abstract

The present study, based on Labovian Sociolinguistics (Labov, 2008), on the Beliefs and Attitudes of social psychologists Lambert and Lambert (1972), and linguist Moreno Fernández (1998), as well as on notions of identity according to Bordieu (1977), Mendoza-Denton (2002), Bonnewitz (2003), Hall (2006), Kiesling (2013), Battisti (2014), and Oushiro (2019), aims to analyze how coexistence with different social groups reflects on the construction of identity, linguistic beliefs, and attitudes of Marji, the main character in the Comic Book (HQ): Persepolis. The choice of this story for the present study is justified by its historical importance regarding the role of women in some Middle Eastern communities and because it is the first autobiographical comic book written by an Iranian woman. It is narrated from Marji's perspective and discusses the imposition of Islamism in Iran. In this descriptive and interpretative research (Moita Lopes, 1994), we also aim to a) expose some social, historical, and political aspects narrated in the comic book Persepolis; b) verify, based on the protagonist Marji's accounts, some impositions on Iranian women. Through the analysis, it was possible, in general, to observe how the beliefs and attitudes of the protagonist influenced the construction of her identities according to her participation in different communities inside and outside of Iran.

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Author Biographies

Wanessa Rodovalho Melo Oliveira, UNEMAT

Graduated in Letters - with specialization in Portuguese Language, Spanish Language and their respective Literatures, from Universidade Católica Dom Bosco - UCDB (2007). Graduate (Lato Sensu), Specialization in Didactics and Methodology of Basic and Higher Education ? Area of ​​Concentration: Education, Teacher Training and Learning Teaching by FECRA - Faculty of Education of Costa Rica and the course in Languages, Their Technologies and The World of Work - Area of ​​Knowledge: Education, by the Open and Distance Education Center/UFPI . She is an effective teacher at the State Education Network - SED/MS. He has experience in the area of ​​Literature, in the disciplines of Portuguese Language, Literature and Spanish Language (2008-2018). Since 2020, he has been working at Conped - Coordination for Standardization of Educational Policies, sector of the State Secretariat of Mato Grosso do Sul - SED. Master in Letters from the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) in 2020, Sociolinguistics research line. PhD started in 2021 at the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), PhD in Linguistics, line of research: Study of Variation and Change and Description Processes. Research on linguistic opinions and attitudes. He is a member of the GEVALIN- LINGUISTIC VARIATION STUDY GROUP, of the State University of Londrina. (Text provided by the author)

Dircel Aparecida Kailer, UEL

She holds a degree in Portuguese and English Language from the State University of the Midwest (1996), a master's degree in Language Studies from the State University of Londrina (2004) and a doctorate in Linguistics and Portuguese Language from UNESP- Campus de Araraquara (2008) and post-graduate PhD from UFRJ (2017). She teaches in the graduate programs: PPGEL (UEL), PROFLETRAS (UEL) and, as a guest, at the PPGL of UNEMAT / Cáceres. Associate Professor A of the Department of Vernacular and Classical Letters at the State University of Londrina and vice-coordinator of PROFLETRAS at the State University of Londrina. 

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Published

2024-02-17

How to Cite

OLIVEIRA, W. R. M.; KAILER, D. A. The Construction of the Identities of the character Marji in the comic Persépolis. Domínios de Lingu@gem, Uberlândia, v. 18, p. e1805, 2024. DOI: 10.14393/DLv18a2024-5. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/70700. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2025.