Ideology Behind the Covers of the Bestselling Books in Iran: Female Narrators in War Literature.

The article looks into the business of book covers with the significance of and rationale behind well-designed, textual, and pictorial paratextuals on the book covers of the bestselling war memoirs, specifically memoirs with a female narrator published in Iran. It demonstrate the politics of book co...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 146 - 176
Autores principales: Ghandeharion, Azra, Tekiyeh, Maryam Sadat Mousavi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Nebraska Press 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Descripción
Sumario:The article looks into the business of book covers with the significance of and rationale behind well-designed, textual, and pictorial paratextuals on the book covers of the bestselling war memoirs, specifically memoirs with a female narrator published in Iran. It demonstrate the politics of book covers, discussing how gender expectations impacted author representations, requiring both tears and smiles by female authors while always emphasizing the war heroine's role as wife and mother.