Shohat / Kaplan / Wiegman Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8796-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Essays by a leading post-colonial theorist on topics including gender, diaspora, film and Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shohat, Ella

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ella Shohat is Professor in the Departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies and affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Among her books are Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age; Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation; and, with Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism, winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award.