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 women Challenges canonical views of modern Arabic literature by studying propaganda texts such as the novels of Saddam Hussein Argues for an interdisciplinary interpretation of literary texts as cultural products that must be contextualised in the 'market' in which they emerge and are received Uses the concept of 'paratexts' in order to better understand how political works circulate and are marketed to...