In fact, the gap between the public and the private spheres, between Fundamentalist Iran and Occidentalized Iran is such in Satrapi's memoir that this cultural in-be-tweenness doesn't succeed in creating hybrid subjects able to challenge authoritative discourse but schizophrenic ones: "la representation of-ficielle de mon pays et la vie reelle des gens, celle qui se passait derriere les murs.
By self-mystifying through an Occidentalized view of Eastern knowledge, perhaps De Quincey achieves something beyond a simple outing of his biases and predeterminations built in Kantian style through categorical similarities and differences.