On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
by Ella Shohat
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"Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the pivotal figure of the Arab-Jew. This book gathers together her most influential political essays, interviews, speeches, testimonies and memoirs, as well as previously unpublished material. Defying the binarist and Eurocentric Arab-versus-Jew rendering of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, show more Shohat's work has dared to engage with the deeper historical and cultural questions swirling around colonialism, Orientalism and nationalism. Shohat's paradigm-shifting work unpacks such fraught issues as the anomalies of the national/colonial in Zionist discourse; the narrating of Jewish pasts in Muslim spaces; the links and distinctions between the dispossession of the Nakba and the dislocation of Arab-Jews; the traumatic memories triggered by partition and border-crossing; the echoes within Islamophobia of the anti-Semitic figure of 'the Jew'; and the efforts to imagine a possible future inter-communal 'convivencia'. Shohat's transdisciplinary perspective illuminates the cultural politics in and around the Middle East. Juxtaposing texts of various genres written in divergent contexts, the book offers a vivid sense of the author's intellectual journey." -- Publisher's description. show lessTags
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Ella Shohat, an Arab Jew from a Baghdadi family now living in NY, is Professor of Cultural Studies and of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University. Translated into numerous languages, her books include: Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices; Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation; Talking Visions; and (with Robert Stam) show more Unthinking Eurocentrism; Flagging Patriotism; and Race in Translation. show less
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- 304.856 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Movement of people
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- DS113.8 .S4 .S56 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Ethnography. Tribes of Israel
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