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History, Space, Plants: Cultural Identity in Persepolis

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DOI: 10.23977/artpl.2023.040509 | Downloads: 33 | Views: 486

Author(s)

Li Yuan 1

Affiliation(s)

1 School of Arts, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Li Yuan

ABSTRACT

In the context of globalization, cultural intermingling has become an inevitable issue among countries worldwide, and the issue of "identity" is constantly highlighted in the process of global cultural intermingling. The sense of identity expressed in the French animated documentary Persepolis, rooted in personal experience and grand historical narrative, has successfully broken the boundaries of tradition and entered the eyes of international film festivals. Persepolis is one of the standout films that employ an animated format to document the history of individuals and their home country, attracting a large global audience and generating widespread buzz in mainstream media and online. Stuart Hall, a British cultural studies scholar, argues that identity is a completed fact, while identity is a never-completed "work" in the process of flux. This paper uses documentary research and case study methods to analyze Marjane Shatapi's "East-West" identity anxiety due to cultural influences by taking her biographical work "Persepolis" as an entry point from macro to micro, abstract to concrete, and from three perspectives: the natural history of Iran, space, and region, and plant jasmine. "The analysis of Marjane's psychological journey to transcend mere imitation and return to a traditional and pure identity,and the conclusion of the three stages of cultural identity "rejection-acceptance-transcendence," aims to highlight how individuals find their identity in the historical process. The purpose is to highlight how individuals find their identity in the historical process.

KEYWORDS

Persepolis; Cultural identity; Animated documentary; Jasmine; History

CITE THIS PAPER

Li Yuan, History, Space, Plants: Cultural Identity in Persepolis. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 54-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040509.

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