At the intersection of Derrida’s philosophy and Spivak’s influence on narrative studies, this study offers a critical effort that goes against the mainstream of contemporary studies about autobiographical texts, here
Reading Lolita in Tehran
and
Persepolis
. On another level, this book is an attempt to critically interrogate the relation of subalternity and autobiographical writing, which is only made possible by extending the range of the genre of autobiography so that it can bear witness to what has been condemned to be unnarratable and, consequently, unheard.