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The Edinburgh companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

By Anna Ball and Karim Mattar

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781474427685, 9781474427708, 9781474427715
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13082877 bytes)
Series
Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Pages
\552
Time added
2022-11-28 17:57:07
postcolonial; middle east

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List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix Notes on the Contributors xi Note on Transliteration xvii Preface xviii Introduction 1. Dialectics of Post/Colonial Modernity in the Middle East: A Critical, Theoretical and Disciplinary Overview 3 Anna Ball and Karim Mattar 2. Edward Said and the Institution of Postcolonial Studies 23 Karim Mattar 3. Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-first-century Horizons 43 Waïl S. Hassan 4. Interview with Ahdaf Soueif 57 Anna Ball 5. Interview with Sinan Antoon 67 Karim Mattar Part I: The Colonial Encounter: Discourses of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism 6. Between the Postcolonial and the Middle East: Writing the Subaltern in the Arab World 83 Juan R. I. Cole 7. Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in Ṭāhā Ḥusayn’s Literary World 97 Wen-chin Ouyang 8. On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited 118 Ella Shohat vicontents 9. Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt 160 Stephen Morton 10. Peripheral Visions: Translational Polemics and Feminist Arguments in Colonial Egypt 183 Marilyn Booth 11. Reimagining the Ottoman Legacy 213 ErdağGöknar Part II: States of Post/Coloniality: Politics, Religion, Gender, Sexuality 12. Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? (On Tahar Djaout’s L’Invention du désert) 241 Réda Bensmaïa 13. Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine 253 Salah D. Hassan 14. ‘They are in the right because I love them’: Literature and Palestine Solidarity in the 1980s 275 Anna Bernard 15. Nikes in Nineveh: Daesh, the Ruin and the Global Logic of Eradication 293 Sadia Abbas 16. There was no ‘Humble Task’ in the Revolution: Anti-colonial Activity and Arab Women 309 Anastasia Valassopoulos 17. The Queerness of Textuality and/as Translation: Ways of Reading Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter329 Lindsey Moore Part III: The Post/Colonial Present: Crisis and Engagement in Global Context 18. Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar 349 Tahia Abdel Nasser 19. Bare Life in the ‘New Iraq’ 362 Ikram Masmoudi 20. Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature? Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field 383 Laetitia Nanquette 21. Popular Culture and the Arab Spring 407 Caroline Rooney 22. The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology 427 miriam cooke 23. Biopolitical Landscapes of the ‘Small Human’: Figuring the Child in the Contemporary Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis in Europe 446 Anna Ball Afterword: Critical Companionships, Urgent Affiliations 469 Anna Ball and Karim Mattar Bibliography 476 Index 514

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