The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East
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'By bringing the Middle East and postcolonial studies into critical conversation, this capacious volume urges us to rethink both, and gives the tools with which to do so. The wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays examine how the literature and culture of the region critically interrogate and illuminate the dynamics of colonialism, modern imperialism and global capitalism. This is a volume that will become an important landmark in the field.' Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania Develops a new 'post/colonial' model of Middle Eastern literary and…mehr

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'By bringing the Middle East and postcolonial studies into critical conversation, this capacious volume urges us to rethink both, and gives the tools with which to do so. The wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays examine how the literature and culture of the region critically interrogate and illuminate the dynamics of colonialism, modern imperialism and global capitalism. This is a volume that will become an important landmark in the field.' Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania 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 Anna Ball is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. Karim Mattar is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Cover image: Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III, 2009, Stainless steel and neon tube, 234 x 223 x 223 cm. (92 1/ x 87 3/4 x 87 3/4 in.) (c) Mona Hatoum. Courtesy the artist and MdbK Leipzig (Photo: dotgain.info) Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2768-5 Barcode
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Anna Ball is Senior Lecturer in English (Postcolonial Studies) and Co-Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective (Routledge, 2012). Karim Mattar is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a transdisciplinary humanist, and his research and teaching interests are focused around world literature, the history of the novel, the Middle East, the Israel / Palestine conflict, and critical theory. With Anna Ball, he is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).