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...

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Published in:Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 146 - 176
Main Authors: Ghandeharion, Azra, Tekiyeh, Maryam Sadat Mousavi
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Published: University of Nebraska Press 2019
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