{"id":269,"date":"2019-10-23T21:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=269"},"modified":"2019-10-23T21:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:35:24","slug":"the-people-without-eyes-or-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/10\/23\/the-people-without-eyes-or-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Without Eyes (or Hair??)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi has use black pinpoints to indicate the pupils of all of her characters. It is not until we meet blonde characters that we first see a switch to small circles in those faces, likely to indicate blue\/green eyes. Though this change in pupils was not noticeable to me on the rare occasion that they were used for characters like Lucia or \u201cHeidi,\u201d they become especially noticeable in these chapters for characters like Ingrid and Markus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking back at the reading, it\u2019s interesting that not every blonde character seems to possess this feature, and no dark-haired people do (even from Europe). Obviously not all blonde-haired people have blue\/green eyes, but this choice nonetheless reflects intentionality of the author behind who has these glaringly different pupils. They are especially noticeable with Markus, which suggests that she may have regarded them as a particularly salient or attractive feature. Similarly with Ingrid, it may have had to do with the distinctness of her light eye color in Marjane\u2019s memory, or may have possibly been tied to their relationship with weed together, which the author often emphasized through sketches of glazed or spiraling eyes. Or maybe she was pointing to a certain vacantness in both characters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, I loved this feature in these chapters because it was startingling in a way that reminded me of <\/span>Beloved.<\/span><\/i> When Beloved referred to white people as the men \u201cwithout skin,\u201d it was a disorienting way of describing whiteness with \u201cabsence\u201d of features. Similarly, by leaving a hole where the pupils for other characters can be found, Marjane is pointing to an absence of color in the blue\/green eyes that are often highly regarded in Western culture. The pupiless eyes look creepy, much like the idea of people without skin. Needless to say, this detail didn\u2019t add positively to my perception of these characters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi has use black pinpoints to indicate the pupils of all of her characters. It is not until we meet…<\/p>\n

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