Taboo memories, diasporic voices / Ella Shohat.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2006], ©2006.

xxi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Gendered cartographies of knowledge : area studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies -- Gender and the culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema -- Sacred word, profane image : theologies of adaptation -- The cinema after Babel: language, difference, power (with Robert Stam) -- "Lasers for ladies" : endo discourse and the inscriptions of science -- Disorienting Cleopatra : a modern trope of identity -- Taboo memories, diasporic visions : Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews -- Notes on the "post-colonial" -- Post-Fanon and the colonial : a situational diagnosis -- Post-third worldist culture : gender, nation, and the cinema -- Rupture and return : Zionist discourse and the study of Arab-Jews -- The "postcolonial" in translation : reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.