Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State

Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003

von Hawraa Al-Hassan

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In an effort to expand its readership and increase support for its pan-Arab project, the Iraqi Ba'th almost completely eradicated illiteracy among women. As Iraq was metaphorically transformed into a 'female', through its nationalist trope, women writers simultaneously found opportunities and faced obstacles from the state, as the 'woman question' became a site of contention between those who would advocate the progressiveness of the Ba'th and those who would stress its repressiveness and immorality. By exploring discourses on gender in both propaganda and high art fictional writings by Iraqis, this book offers an alternative narrative of the literary and cultural history of Iraq.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9781474441759
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press