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Persepolis

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Artist: Marjane Satrapi

Year: 2013

Date of Action: March, 26 2013

Region: North America

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Subject: Violence

Medium: Literature

Confronting Bodies: Chicago Public School Officials

Description of Artwork: "Persepolis" is a autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the tale of Satrapi's coming of age in revolution-era Iran.

The Incident: Unknown Chicago Public School officials declared the graphic novel unfit for middle and high school curricula. They have banned the book from reading lists and ask that teachers wishing to assign the text take a supplementary course on teaching "sensitive materials".

Results of Incident: Not provided yet.

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