Shohat, Ella, 1959-

Taboo memories, diasporic voices [electronic resource] / Ella Shohat. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2006. - xxi, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Next wave . - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gendered cartographies of knowledge : area studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies -- Gender and the culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema -- Sacred word, profane image : the ologies of adaptation -- The cinema after Babel: language, difference, power (with Robert Stam) -- "Lasers for ladies" : endo discourse and th e inscriptions of science -- Disorienting Cleopatra : a modern trope of identity -- Taboo memories, diasporic visions : Columbus, Palestine, a nd Arab-Jews -- Notes on the "post-colonial" -- Post-Fanon and the colo nial : a situational diagnosis -- Post-third worldist culture : gender, nation, and the cinema -- Rupture and return : Zionist discourse and t he study of Arab-Jews -- The "postcolonial" in translation : reading Ed ward Said between English and Hebrew.


Electronic text and image data.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2006.
Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text.
([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Mode of a ccess: Intranet.




Feminist theory.
Feminist criticism.
Postcolonialism.
Identity (Psychology)
Zionism.