{"product_id":"taboo-memories-diasporic-voices-9780822337713","title":"Taboo Memories Diasporic Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrates that gender, cultural difference, and colonial history are intimately bound together and often can only be understood in relation to one another. The author analyzes how diverse representational practices - be they visual, textual, or even scientific - relate to the construction of gender, race, sexuality, and national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amplitude, in both scope and wavelength, is the operative word for these essays. Each essay breaks out a cascade of examples—the sheer wealth of citation alone makes this volume exceptional. Its vibrant combination of skepticism and generosity is Ella Shohat’s trademark.”—Mary Louise Pratt, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ella Shohat’s writing explores the volatile border regions where feminist theory meets anticolonial thought and where the politics of culture encounters the powers of imperialist reason. What she writes is important, inspiring, and fearless.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eRule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From her keen observations about the politics of knowledge production in the U.S. university, to her canny elucidation of the gendered geographies of colonial cinema, to her critical engagements with post-Zionist discourse, Ella Shohat’s bold intelligence is unparalleled. This volume collects her key interventions that have shaped and illuminated the debates we have come to know as multiculturalism, postcolonial discourse, and transnational feminism.”—Lisa Lowe, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he collection functions as a window onto the issues and dilemmas confronted by an interdisciplinary cultural studies since the late 1980s, namely, the concerns raised by multiculturalism, transnational feminism, diaspora, and postcolonialism. However, the larger accomplishment of the volume is that it reveals a pioneering mode of cultural criticism that may be definitively viewed as a ‘post-orientalist’ practice of knowledge. . . . As an essayist, [Shohat] has a knack for constructing a platform of inquiry through a prism of complexities and interrelationships, and for scrutinizing a given phenomenon of culture along multiple axes, investments, and stakes. These qualities make this a valuable book, and we may hope that more from Shohat is in the works.” -- Saloni Mathur * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xiii\u003cbr\u003e Gendered Cartographies of Knowledge: Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies 1\u003cbr\u003e Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema 17\u003cbr\u003e Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaption 70\u003cbr\u003e The Cinema after Babel: Language, Difference, Power (with Robert Stam) 106\u003cbr\u003e “Lasers for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science 139\u003cbr\u003e Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity 166\u003cbr\u003e Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews 201\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the “Post-Colonial” 233\u003cbr\u003e Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational Diagnosis 250\u003cbr\u003e Post-Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema 290\u003cbr\u003e Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews 330\u003cbr\u003e The “Postcolonial” in Translation: Reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew 359\u003cbr\u003e Index 385","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577676894551,"sku":"9780822337713","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337713.jpg?v=1746096130","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taboo-memories-diasporic-voices-9780822337713","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}