Persepolis

När man ska läsa förbjudna böcker med elever så kan man välja när man vill berättar om anledningen till att boken varit förbjuden, dvs innan, under eller efter läsningen.

Det finns poänger med alla tre sätten. Om man vet anledningen innan man börjar läsa kan det väcka intresse för boken och sätta in den i ett sammanhang direkt. Väljer man att berätta varför under läsningen, tex i samband med att man läser vissa passager, kan det också bli bra diskussioner och ge en ökad förståelse för den fortsatta läsningen.

Väntar man till efter läsningen kan det också ge ytterliga perspektiv på boken hos eleverna.

Anledningen till att boken varit förbjuden kan vara avgörande för vilket sätt man väljer. På samma sätt spelar anledningen till att man läser boken med klassen också roll; dvs om huvudanledningen är att den varit förbjuden eller om den är någon annan?

Det spelar också roll om alla elever i klassen läser samma bok eller inte.

I dessa podcastavsnitt och artiklar kan du lära dig mer om förbjudna böcker

• Yttrandefrihetspodden, Svenska PEN, avsnitt 31 2023: Roald Dahl, yttrandefriheten och rätten att ändra i böcker.
• Yttrandefrihetspodden, Svenska PEN, avsnitt 36 2023, Banned books in Sweden and the US.
• Gräv bort Skåne, Sydsvenskan, avsnitt 9 2023, Förbjudna barnböcker.
• Bildningspodden, avsnitt 56, Yttrandefrihet.
• Sydsvenskan artikelserie Förbjudna böcker.
• Ölmedal, Ida, ”Låtsas inte att det inte finns farliga böcker”, Sydsvenskan 2023-10-01.

Lärarhandledningarna är uppbyggda med följande rubriker:

1. Om boken. En kort sammanfattning av bokens innehåll och dess centrala teman.
2. Varför har boken varit förbjuden. Förklaring av var, när och varför boken varit förbjuden.
3. Innan läsningen. Vad behöver eleverna veta innan de börjar läsa? Behövs det en introduktion av författaren och dennes samtid, eller kanske av den tidsperiod boken skildrar? Behöver genren introduceras? Har boken en uppbyggnad eller berättarperspektiv som behöver förklaras i förväg?
4. Under läsningen. I dessa lärarhandledningar finn sett antal frågor som man kan jobba med under tiden man läser boken. Här finns också ett par utvalda citat med som belyser teman eller viktiga händelser. Dessa kan man välja att delge eleverna innan man läser, eller i samband med att man bearbetar de aktuella sidorna.
5. Efter läsningen. I dessa lärarhandledningar finns ett antal frågor som kan användas till såväl skriftliga som muntliga uppgifter. Frågorna kan också användas såväl innan som under läsningen för diskussioner och bearbetning av det lästa.
6. Bonusruta. I bonusrutan finns tips på andra böcker, både från vårt skolutbud men även andra böcker, som till exempel har samma tematik. Här finns också tips på artiklar, hemsidor, poddar och filmer som kan vara användbara i undervisningen om boken.

Dessa frågor kan användas som diskussionsunderlag under tiden som eleverna arbetar med en bok.

• Ta reda på anledningarna till att boken blivit förbjuden eller utmanad?. Vem, var, när? Kan du förstå varför?
• Om ni läser flera olika böcker i klassen: Vilka mönster finns mellan anledningarna? Vad tror du det är och vilket samhälle tror du det är man vill uppnå? Finns det andra förklaringar än de officiella?
• Är litteratur så viktig eller farlig att man blir påverkad? Hur blev du påverkad av boken? Av bokens "förbjudna” innehåll?
• Tycker du att det finns någon bok eller kultur som borde förbjudas, och i så fall i vilka sammanhang? Varför eller varför inte? Vem ska i så fall bestämma det?
• Kan du förstå att denna bok har blivit förbjuden?

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 6: ”I didn’t really know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde.”
• Sida 17: ”God, where are you?” That night he didn’t come.
• Sida 53: ”I didn’t know what justice was. Now that the revolution was finally over once and for all I abandoned the dialectic materialism of my comic strips. The only place I felt safr was in the arms of my friend.”
• Sida 70,citat 1: ”Marji, what seems to be the problem?”
• Sida 70,citat 2: ”Shut up, you! Get out of my life!!! I never want so see you again! Get out!”
• Sida 223: ”And this miracle happened one night in June, during my sleep.”
• Sida 284: ”I was lucky. I had stumbled on a true religious man.”

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 22: ”I think you are old enough to understand certain things”
• Sida 145, citat 1: ”It was the principal of Marji’s school. Apparently she told off the religion teacher. She gets that from her uncle.
• Sida 145, citat 2: ”Maybe you’d like her to end up like him too? Executed?”
• Sida 201: ”I didn’t repeat that she, too, had changed. At her age, you don’t grow up, you grow old.”
• Sida 203: ”She never asked me any questions about my situation. Certainly out of a sense of restraint and also because she was scared of the answers. If she had sacrificed herself so that I could live freely, the least I could do was behave well.”
• Sida 233: ”Where was my mother to stroke my hair? Where was my grandmother to tell me that lovers, I would havet hem by the dozen? Wheremy father to punish this boy who dares hurt his daughter? Where?”
• Sida 339, citat 1: ”Well, we’re very happy with your decision. You weren’t made to live here. We Iranians, we’re crushed not only by the government but by the weight of our traditions.”
• Sida 339, citat 2: ”Our revolution set us back fiftty years. It will take generstions for all this to evolve, you only have one life. It’s your duty to live it well.”
• Sida 341: ”This time, you’re leaving for good. You are a free woman. The Iran of today is not for you. I forbid you to come back!”

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 117: ”With this first cigarette , I kissed childhood goodbye.”
• Sida 156: ”What a traitor! While people were dying in our country, she was talking to me about trivial things.”
• Sida 172: ”As opposed to my school friends’ favorite sibjects of conversation, we never youched on war, or death.”
• Sida 179: ”Reading wasn’t enough. To fit in I still had a long way to go.”
• Sida 188: ”That night , I really understood the meaning of the ”sexual revolution”. It was my first big step toward assimilating into Western culture.”
• Sida 193: ”The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I hade the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rules.”
• Sida 197: ”For the firsr time in a year, I felt proud. I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.”
• Sida 220: ”But this, this was different. It was neither an old man destroyed by the war, nor a young idiot. It was my boyfriend’s mother who attacked me. She was saying that I was taking advantage of Markus and his situation to obtain an austrian passport, that I was a witch.”
• Sida 244: ”I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices thay had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
• Sida 251: ”I felt as I were walking through a cemetery.”
• Sida 266, citat 1: ”That day, I learned something essential: we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable…
• Sida 266, citat 2: …once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”
• Sida 267: ”Certainly, they’d had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, tehy had always had a home! I kept repeating to myself that I mustn’t crack up.”
• Sida 270: ”Underneath their outward appearance of being modern women, my friends were real traditionalists.”
• Sida 271: ”When I was in Vienna, my life dodn’t matter to anyone and that obviously had an effect on my own self-esteem. I was reduced to nothing. I thought that in coming back to Iran, this would change.”
• Sida 272: ”I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity”
• Sida 290: ”The outside being dangerous, we often found ourselves inside, at his house or at my house. This situation was suffocating me.”
• Sida 291: ”Have you forgotten who your grandfather was? He spent a third of his life in prison for having defended some innocents! And your uncle Anoosh? Have you forgotten him too? He gave his life for his ideas! What have I taught you? Hunh??? ”Integrity”!! Does this word mean anything to you?”
• Sida 298: ”And this is how I recovered my self-esteem and my dignity for the first time in a long time, I was happy with myself.”
• Sida 317: ”I was already sorry! I had suddenly become ”a married woman”. I had conformed to society, while I had always wanted to remain in the margins.”

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 31: ”– Are you a royalist? –No, but my husband died of cancer.”
• Sida 97: ”After a little while noone took the torture sessions seriously anymore. As for me, I immediately started to make fun of them.”
• Sida 98: ”If hair is as stimulating as you say then you need to shave your mustache.”
• Sida 266: ”We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unberaable is to laugh at it”

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 39: ”We had deminstrated on the very day we shouldn’t have: on Black Friday. That day there were so many killed in one of the neighborhoods that a rumor spread that Israeli soldiers were responsible for the slaughter. But in fact it was really our own who had attacked us.”
• Sida 76: ”Every man for himself!”
• Sida 99: ”They gave this to my son at school. They told the boys that if they went to war and were lucky enough to die, this key would get the mint to heaven.”
• Sida 105: ”The masking tape is to protect against flying glass during a bombing and the black currtains are to protect us from our neighbours (…) Across the street. They’re totally devoted to the new regime. A glimpse of what goes on in our house would be enough for them to denonunce us!”
• Sida 106: ”In spite of all the dangers the parties went on. ”Without them it wouldn’t be psychologically bearable” someone said.”Without parties we might as well just bury ourselves right now.”
• Sida 116: ”They eventually admitted that the survival of the regime depended on the war. When I think we could have avoided it all…it just makes me sick. A million people would still be alive”
• Sida 259: ”A part of me understood them. When something is forbidden, it takes on a disproportionate importance. Much later, I learned that making themselves up and wanting to follow western ways was an act of resistance on their part.”
• Sida 302: ”The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: xx No longer asks herself:
• Sida 323: ”The regime had absolute power, and most people, in search of a cloud of happiness, had forgotten their political conscience.”

Alla citat hänvisar till sidor i Pantheon books utgåva från 2007, 34:e tryckningen.

• Sida 44f: ”– Children, tear out all photos of the shsh in your books. But she was the one who told usthat the shah was chosen by God.”
• Sida 64: ”Don’t worry. Everyone who left will come back. They’re just afraid of change.”
• Sida 73: ”Thus the universities were closed for two years.”
• Sida 75, citat 1: ”In no time, the way people dressed became an ideological sign. There were two kinds of women. (…) There were also two kinds of men.”
• Sida 75, citat 2: ”It wasn’t only the government thsat changed, Ordinary people changed too.”
• Sida 87: ”– Your father acted like a genuine hero, you should be proud of him! – I wish he were alive and in jail rather than dead and a hero.”
• Sida 115: ”To die a martyr is to inject blood inte the veins of society”
• Sida 146: ”– 500 Tumans for the life and virginity of an innocent girl. – I had no idea.”