On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements : Selected Writings / Ella Shohat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shohat, Ella, 1959- author.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mizrahim.

Jewish diaspora.

Arabs--Migrations.

Arabs.

Middle East--History--20th century.

Middle East.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2017.

Summary:

Shohat's paradigm-shifting work has for decades been challenging received understandings of Zionism, Israel/Palestine, and the Middle East and its diasporas, highlighting the pivotal figure of the Arab-Jew. This book gathers some of her most influential essays, interviews, and memoir-pieces, some previously unpublished, illuminating her intellectual itinerary and larger project of the decolonization of knowledge. Now with an engaging new introduction, the book unfolds Shohat's key role in the burgeoning field of Mizrahi/Arab-Jewish studies, and generally in the shaping of diasporic thinking. Her cross-border perspective on cultural politics resignifies exile and return, revealing intricate landscapes of belonging. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Question of the Arab-Jew

1 Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims 37

2 Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew 77

3 Breaking the Silence 83

4 Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism 87

5 The Invention of the Mizrahim 102

6 Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography 122

Part II Between Palestine and Israel

7 The Trouble with Hanna ( / Richard Porton) 131

8 In Defense of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East ( / Yerach Gover) 139

9 Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine 143

10 Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed 155

11 Exile, Diaspora, and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse 164

12 The Alphabet of Dispossession 178

13 On Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Interview Conducted / Jadaliyya) 182

14 In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual 193

15 A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years Alter the "Jews of the Orient and Palestinians" Meeting 200

Part III Cultural Politics of the Middle East

16 Egypt: Cinema and Revolution 225

17 Gender in Hollywood's Orient 238

18 The Media's War 245

19 The Carthage Film Festival( / Robert Stam) 252

20 The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora 258

21 Reflections on September II 278

22 Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation / Rashid Khalidi) 283

23 Postscript to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth 298

24 On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said's Orientalism 321

Part IV Muslims Jews, and Diasporic Readings

25 Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections 331

26 "Corning to America": Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss 339

27 Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted / Christian Höller) 356

28 Arab Jews, Diasporas, and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted / Evelyn Alsultany) 371

29 Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews - the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted / Rasha Salti Salti, Rasha, Layla Al-Zubaidi) 385

30 Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted / Manuela Boatcá Boatcá, Manuela, Sérgio Costa) 401

31 Don't Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation / Michael Rakowitz Rakowitz, Michael, Regine Basha) 410.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-445) and index.

ISBN:

9780745399508

0745399509

9780745399492

0745399495

OCLC:

957507858