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(Ella Shohat is great)
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
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as previously unpublished material.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, 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.
About The Author
Ella Shohat, an Arab Jew from a Baghdadi family now living in New York,
is Professor of Cultural Studies and of Middle Eastern Studies, New York
University. Among her many books are Israeli Cinema: East/West and the
Politics of Representation (I.B. Tauris, 2010) and Taboo Memories,
Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006).
http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745399492
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