Edinburgh companion to the postcolonial Middle East /

"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 in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ball, Anna (Editor ), Mattar, Karim, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Colección:Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
Temas:
Since 1517
Postcolonialism > Middle East.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Postcolonialism
Middle East > History > 1517-
Moyen-Orient > Histoire > 1517-
Middle East
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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