This dissertation examines contemporary feminist writings from the Arab Gulf that offer various perspectives on the nation vis-a-vis their fictional narratives on marginalized groups. The research is broken down into a number of key political questions: How do these women-writers tackle the experiences and histories of marginalized groups, specifically migrants, blacks, and the stateless? How do they challenge or reproduce hegemonic accounts, rhetoric, and representations in their approaches to subaltern subjectivities? How do their writings address the archaic question of politics and aesthetics? What kind of intellectual history is summoned and generated in their praxis of writing?