Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices

Informationen zum Autor Ella Shohat Klappentext Essays by a leading post-colonial theorist on topics including gender! diaspora! film and Israel. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Preface xiii Gendered Cartographies of Knowledge: Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies 1 Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema 17 Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaption 70 The Cinema after Babel: Language, Difference, Power (with Robert Stam) 106 “Lasers for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science 139 Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity 166 Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews 201 Notes on the “Post-Colonial” 233 Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational Diagnosis 250 Post-Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema 290 Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews 330 The “Postcolonial” in Translation: Reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew 359 Index 385

Product details

• Authors: Ella Shohat
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2006
• EAN: 9780822337713
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3771-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories