The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East

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 cr