The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East / / Karim Mattar, Anna Ball.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Ball, Anna,; Mattar, Karim,
• MitwirkendeR: Abbas, Sadia,; Ball, Anna,; Bensmaïa, Réda,; Bernard, Anna,; Booth, Marilyn,; Cole, Juan R. I.,; Cooke, Miriam,; Göknar, Erdağ,; Hassan, Salah D.,; Hassan, Waïl S.,; Masmoudi, Ikram,; Mattar, Karim,; Moore, Lindsey,; Morton, Stephen,; Nanquet, Laetitia,; Nasser, Tahia Abdel,; Ouyang, Wen-chin,; Rooney, Caroline,; Shohat, Ella,; Valassopoulos, Anastasia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 29 B/W illustrations

Develops a new ‘post/colonial’ model of Middle Eastern literary and cultural modernityThis Edinburgh Companion seeks to develop a postcolonial framework for addressing the Middle East. The first collection of essays on this subject, it assembles some of the world’s foremost postcolonialists to explo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Note on Transliteration
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Dialectics of Post/Colonial Modernity in the Middle East: A Critical, Theoretical and Disciplinary Overview
• Chapter 2 Edward Said and the Institution of Postcolonial Studies
• Chapter 3 Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-first-century Horizons
• Chapter 4 Interview with Ahdaf Soueif
• Chapter 5 Interview with Sinan Antoon
• Part I The Colonial Encounter: Discourses of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism
• Chapter 6 Between the Postcolonial and the Middle East: Writing the Subaltern in the Arab World
• Chapter 7 Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in ṬĀhĀ Ḥusayn’s Literary World1
• Chapter 8 On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited
• Chapter 9 Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt
• Chapter 10 Peripheral Visions: TRANSLATIONAL POLEMICS AND FEMINIST ARGUMENTS IN COLONIAL EGYPT
• Chapter 11 Reimaging the Ottoman Legacy
• Part II States of Post/Coloniality: Politics, Religion, Gender, Sexuality
• Chapter 12 Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? (On Tahar Djaout’s L’INVENTION DU DÉSERT)
• Chapter 13 Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine
• Chapter 14 ‘They are in the right because I love them’: Literature and Palestine Solidarity in the 1980s
• Chapter 15 Nikes in Nineveh: Daesh, the Ruin and the Global Logic of Eradication
• Chapter 16 There Was No ‘Humble Task’ in the Revolution: Anti-colonial Activity and Arab Women
• Chapter 17 The Queerness of Textuality and/as Translation: Ways of Reading Hoda Barakat’s THE STONE OF LAUGHTER
• Part III The Post/Colonial Present: Crisis and Engagement in Global Context
• Chapter 18 Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar
• Chapter 19 Bare Life in the ‘New Iraq’
• Chapter 20 Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature? Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field
• Chapter 21 Popular Culture and the Arab Spring
• Chapter 22 The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology
• Chapter 23 Biopolitical Landscapes of the ‘Small Human’: Figuring the Child in the Contemporary Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis in Europe
• Afterword: Critical Companionships, Urgent Affiliations
• Bibliography
• Index