The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

Anna Ball; Karim Mattar

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

Anna Ball and Karim Mattar

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474427708

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About this book

Develops a new ‘post/colonial’ model of Middle Eastern literary and cultural modernity

This 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 explore the critical, theoretical and disciplinary possibilities that inquiry into this region opens for postcolonial studies.

Throughout its twenty-four chapters, its focus is on literary and cultural critique. It draws on texts and contexts from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries as case studies, and deploys the concept of ‘post/colonial modernity’ to reveal the enduring impact of colonial and imperial power on the shaping of the region. And it covers a wide and significant range of political, social, and cultural issues in the Middle East during that period – including the heritage of Orientalism in the region; the roots and contemporary branches of the Israel–Palestine conflict; colonial history, state formation and cultures of resistance in Egypt, Turkey, the Maghreb and the wider Arab world; the clash of tradition and modernity in regional and transnational expressions of Islam; the politics of gender and sexuality in the Arab world; the ongoing crises in Libya, Iraq, Iran and Syria; the Arab Spring; and the Middle Eastern refugee crisis in Europe.

Key Features

The first reference work to systematically investigate the relationship between postcolonial studies and the Middle East
Brings together twenty-two of the world’s foremost postcolonialists in a unique collaborative endeavour
Addresses some of the most significant political, social and cultural issues in the Middle East from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries
Covers a wide range of forms and genres, including fiction, poetry, life-writing, film, documentary, pictorial art, performance art, popular music, graffiti, the digital media and translation

Contributors

Sadia Abbas, Rutgers University, Newark
Sinan Antoon, New York University
Anna Ball, Nottingham Trent University
Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University
Anna Bernard, King’s College London
Marilyn Booth, Oxford University
Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan
Miriam Cooke, Duke University
Erdağ Göknar, Duke University
Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ikram Masmoudi, University of Delaware
Karim Mattar, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lindsey Moore, Lancaster University
Stephen Morton, University of Southampton
Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Tahia Abdel Nasser, American University in Cairo
Wen-Chin Ouyang, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Caroline Rooney, University of Kent
Ella Shohat, New York University
Ahdaf Soueif is a novelist, translator, and political and cultural commentator
Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on the Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dialectics of Post/Colonial Modernity in the Middle East: A Critical, Theoretical and Disciplinary Overview Anna Ball and Karim Mattar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Edward Said and the Institution of Postcolonial Studies Karim Mattar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 3 Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-first-century Horizons Waïl S. Hassan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 4 Interview with Ahdaf Soueif Anna Ball Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 5 Interview with Sinan Antoon Karim Mattar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
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 Juan R. I. Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 7 Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in ṬĀhĀ Ḥusayn’s Literary World1 Wen-chin Ouyang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 8 On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited Ella Shohat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Chapter 9 Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt Stephen Morton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter 10 Peripheral Visions: TRANSLATIONAL POLEMICS AND FEMINIST ARGUMENTS IN COLONIAL EGYPT Marilyn Booth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 11 Reimaging the Ottoman Legacy Erdağ Göknar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
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) Réda Bensmaïa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Chapter 13 Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine Salah D. Hassan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Chapter 14 ‘They are in the right because I love them’: Literature and Palestine Solidarity in the 1980s Anna Bernard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter 15 Nikes in Nineveh: Daesh, the Ruin and the Global Logic of Eradication Sadia Abbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Chapter 16 There Was No ‘Humble Task’ in the Revolution: Anti-colonial Activity and Arab Women Anastasia Valassopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Chapter 17 The Queerness of Textuality and/as Translation: Ways of Reading Hoda Barakat’s THE STONE OF LAUGHTER Lindsey Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
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 Tahia Abdel Nasser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Chapter 19 Bare Life in the ‘New Iraq’ Ikram Masmoudi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
Chapter 20 Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature? Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field Laetitia Nanquet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Chapter 21 Popular Culture and the Arab Spring Caroline Rooney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Chapter 22 The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology Miriam Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Chapter 23 Biopolitical Landscapes of the ‘Small Human’: Figuring the Child in the Contemporary Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis in Europe Anna Ball Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	446
Afterword: Critical Companionships, Urgent Affiliations Anna Ball and Karim Mattar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	514

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 544
Illustrations
- Other: 29 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Islamic Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474427708