The 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 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 IsraelPalestine 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.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East is to be welcomed. The subjects covered are expertly handled and contain a wealth of material on areas of study hitherto well researched but not brought together in this specific context.--Geoffrey Nash, School of African and Oriental Studies "The Muslim World Book Review, 40:2, 2020"

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.

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