Alimentação em conflito: o comer em tempos de crise em Persépolis.

Abstract

Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi during the Iranian revolution occurred in the late 1970’s. The work consists of an illustrated journal, a comics, which has autobiographical character. Persepolis, as a literary work, launches a magnifying glass on the history of Iran as a devastated country flap resulting hunger armed conflict. As autobiography, this book tells the child's picture of its protagonist, whose lifestyle was drastically changed by the war. Through protagonist’s eyes, various food phenomena can be seen throughout the work. Understanding the changes that political conflicts generated in the food social space shown in Persepolis work corpus of this research was the objective of this work. The two codes used in the work, linguistic and visual, were analyzed separately, focusing on pages that approaches the food subject in the scenario of conflicts generated by the Iranian revolution. Verbal data were cut in sequential frames and in them were observed elements of interest to the research as to visual data was observed the presence of objects, facial expressions and body of the characters. In both approaches we sought data on the topic of Social Space Food was showed. A classification matrix was developed. The analysis returned the following data: (1) It’s in Persepolis scenario the production of an epidemic hunger; (2) the conflict requires the subject a number of deficiencies, where fear and uncertainty are the engines loss of appetite; (3) the strangeness of experience lived in exile highlight the nostalgia of lost flavors. With this study, we realize that the changes that political conflicts generated in the food social space are structural, thus pointing to the scope of the food phenomenon in its cultural and social dimensions. In addition, there is the power of the literary work as a corpus that has all the appropriate elements to an anthropological analysis and incorporating a profound reflection on the human condition.