Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on the Contributors xi
6. Note on Transliteration xvii
7. Preface xviii
8. Introduction
9. Chapter 1 Dialectics of Post/Colonial Modernity in the Middle East: A Critical, Theoretical and Disciplinary Overview 1
10. Chapter 2 Edward Said and the Institution of Postcolonial Studies 23
11. Chapter 3 Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-first-century Horizons 43
12. Chapter 4 Interview with Ahdaf Soueif 57
13. Chapter 5 Interview with Sinan Antoon 67
14. Part I The Colonial Encounter: Discourses of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism
15. Chapter 6 Between the Postcolonial and the Middle East: Writing the Subaltern in the Arab World 81
16. Chapter 7 Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in ṬĀhĀ Ḥusayn’s Literary World1 97
17. Chapter 8 On Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab/Jew Figure Revisited 118
18. Chapter 9 Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt 160
19. Chapter 10 Peripheral Visions: TRANSLATIONAL POLEMICS AND FEMINIST ARGUMENTS IN COLONIAL EGYPT 183
20. Chapter 11 Reimaging the Ottoman Legacy 213
21. Part II States of Post/Coloniality: Politics, Religion, Gender, Sexuality
22. Chapter 12 Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? (On Tahar Djaout’s L’INVENTION DU DÉSERT) 239
23. Chapter 13 Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine 253
24. Chapter 14 ‘They are in the right because I love them’: Literature and Palestine Solidarity in the 1980s 275
25. Chapter 15 Nikes in Nineveh: Daesh, the Ruin and the Global Logic of Eradication 293
26. Chapter 16 There Was No ‘Humble Task’ in the Revolution: Anti-colonial Activity and Arab Women 309
27. Chapter 17 The Queerness of Textuality and/as Translation: Ways of Reading Hoda Barakat’s THE STONE OF LAUGHTER 329
28. Part III The Post/Colonial Present: Crisis and Engagement in Global Context
29. Chapter 18 Anglophone Arab Autobiography and the Postcolonial Middle East: Najla Said and Hisham Matar 347
30. Chapter 19 Bare Life in the ‘New Iraq’ 362
31. Chapter 20 Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature? Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field 383
32. Chapter 21 Popular Culture and the Arab Spring 407
33. Chapter 22 The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology 427
34. Chapter 23 Biopolitical Landscapes of the ‘Small Human’: Figuring the Child in the Contemporary Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis in Europe 446
35. Afterword: Critical Companionships, Urgent Affiliations 469
36. Bibliography 476
37. Index 514