Shohat's critical method boldly transcends disciplinary and geographical boundaries. She explores such issues as the relations between ethnic studies and area studies, the paradoxical repercussions for audio-visual media of the "graven images" taboo, the allegorization of race through the refiguring of Cleopatra, the allure of imperial popular culture, and the gender politics of medical technologies. She also examines the resistant poetics of exile and displacement; the staging of historical memory through the commemorations of the two 1492s, the anomalies of the "national" in Zionist discourse, the implications of the hyphen in the concept "Arab-Jew," and the translation of the debates on orientalism and postcolonialism across geographies. "Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices" not only illuminates many of the concerns that have animated the study of cultural politics over the past two decades; it also points toward new scholarly possibilities.
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Shohat's critical method boldly transcends disciplinary and geographical boundaries. She explores such issues as the relations between ethnic studies and area studies, the paradoxical repercussions for audio-visual media of the "graven images" taboo, the allegorization of race through the refiguring of Cleopatra, the allure of imperial popular culture, and the gender politics of medical technologies. She also examines the resistant poetics of exile and displacement; the staging of historical memory through the commemorations of the two 1492s, the anomalies of the "national" in Zionist discourse, the implications of the hyphen in the concept "Arab-Jew," and the translation of the debates on orientalism and postcolonialism across geographies. "Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices" not only illuminates many of the concerns that have animated the study of cultural politics over the past two decades; it also points toward new scholarly possibilities.
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
Release date | July 2006 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | July 2006 |
Authors | Ella Shohat |
Dimensions | 236 x 157 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Cloth over boards |
Pages | 432 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-3758-4 |
Barcode | 9780822337584 |
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LSN | 0-8223-3758-4 |