On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements : selected writings
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On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements : selected writings
Pluto Press, 2017
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*Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017*
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together her most influential political essays, interviews, speeches, testimonies and memoirs, as well as previously unpublished material.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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Question of the Arab-Jew
1. Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims
2. Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew
3. Breaking the Silence
4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race and Multiculturalism
5. The Invention of the Mizrahim
6. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography
Part II: Between Palestine and Israel
7. The Trouble with Hanna (with Richard Porton)
8. In Defence of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East (with Yerach Gover)
9. Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine
10. Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed
11. Exile, Diaspora and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse
12. The Alphabet of Dispossession
13. On Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation
(Interview Conducted by Jadaliyya)
14. In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual
15. A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the "Jews of the Orient and Palestinians" Meeting
Part III : Cultural Politics of the Middle East
16. Egypt: Cinema and Revolution
17. Gender in Hollywood's Orient
18. The Media's War
19. The Carthage Film Festival (with Robert Stam)
20. The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation and Diaspora
21. Reflections on September 11
22. Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi)
23. Postscript to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
24. On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said's Orientalism
Part IV: Muslims, Jews and Diasporic Readings
25. Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections
26. 'Coming to America': Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss
27. Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted by Christian Hoeller)
28. Arab-Jews, Diasporas and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted by Evelyn Alsultany)
29. Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews - the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted by Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi)
30. Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted by Manuela Boatc and Sergio Costa)
31. Don't Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation with Michael Rakowitz and Regine Basha)
Notes
Index
About the Book and the Author
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