Middle East Interpretations will serve as organizational center for two groups of academic blogs from Literary Interpretations and Postcolonial Literature in the English Department at Western Michigan University.
Our research and writing will be focused around modern literature from and about the Middle East as we collaborate to create on-line resources and a book for teachers from middle school through college.
Eight years after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, our country remains engaged in protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and extensively involved politically, economically, and culturally in the region. Growing minority populations in English-speaking countries have cultural roots in the Middle East.
Most Americans know little about the area, its diversity of people and life patterns, the impact of migration, war, cultural, economic and environmental change, the influence of American involvement, or even people of Middle Eastern origin in their own communities. At the same time there is a renaissance of literature in and about the Middle East published in Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew, French, and English -- increasingly available in translation.
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