“How much I have loved that part of the world”: Agatha Christie and her mysteries in the Middle East

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dc.contributor.authorSingh, Alicia
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-25T15:16:52Z
dc.date.available2025-04-25T15:16:52Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractDuring her lifetime, famous British author Agatha Christie, most known for her mystery novels, had set several of her mystery novels in the Middle East. This project is an examination of Christie’s perception of the Middle East through these books. For the purpose of this project, I studied four of these stories, Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1937), Appointment with Death (1938), and They Came to Baghdad (1951). I found that although Christie incorporates subtle criticisms of certain Orientalist views, she ignores others, and fails to criticize British colonialism in the Middle East as a whole within her novels.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduate
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22017
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity Of Victoria
dc.subjectAgatha Christie
dc.subjectOrientalism
dc.subjectcolonialism
dc.subjectMiddle East
dc.subjectnovels
dc.title“How much I have loved that part of the world”: Agatha Christie and her mysteries in the Middle East
dc.typePoster

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