Middle East Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

   The Politics of the Turkish Novel

   By Erdag Göknar

   Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Iran

   Politics, History and Literature

   By Homa Katouzian

   Series: Iranian Studies

   This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Orientalism Revisited

   Art, Land and Voyage

   Edited by Ian Netton

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Egyptian Literature (Routledge Revivals)

   Vol. I: Legends of the Gods

   By E.A. Budge

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Egyptian Literature (Routledge Revivals)

   Vol. II: Annals of Nubian Kings

   By E.A. Budge

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Arab Cultural Studies

   History, Politics and the Popular

   Edited by Anastasia Valassopoulos

   This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Egyptian Tales and Romances (Routledge Revivals)

   Pagan, Christian and Muslim

   By E. A. Budge

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...

   Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

   Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East

   Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing

   By Norbert Bugeja

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and ‘threshold’ states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

    By Anna Ball

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative...

    Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge