Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba‘thist State

Explores discourses on gender and representations of women in modern Iraqi fiction Includes marginalised voices in Arabic literary scholarship, such as religious writings by Iraqi Shia womenChallenges canonical views of modern Arabic literature by studying propaganda texts such as the novels of Saddam HusseinArgues for an interdisciplinary interpretation of literary texts as cultural products that must be contextualised in the ‘market’ in which they emerge and are receivedUses the concept of ‘pa