Essays by a leading post-colonial theorist on topics including gender, diaspora, film and Israel.

Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Gendered Cartographies of Knowledge: Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies 1
Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema 17
Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaption 70
The Cinema after Babel: Language, Difference, Power (with Robert Stam) 106
“Lasers for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science 139
Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity 166
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews 201
Notes on the “Post-Colonial” 233
Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational Diagnosis 250
Post-Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema 290
Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews 330
The “Postcolonial” in Translation: Reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew 359
Index 385

Ella Shohat is Professor in the Departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies and affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Among her books are Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age; Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation; and, with Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism, winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award.