Scaling Program Investments for Young Children Globally

Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, São Paulo

Autor: Tracey, Sarah M.; Patel, Deepali M.
Editor: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309374125
eISBN Pdf: 9780309374132
eISBN Epub: 9780309374156
Lugar de publicación: Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2006
Mes: Julio
Páginas: 432
DDC: 305.4201
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays—some classic, some less known, some new—trace a powerful intellectual trajectory as Shohat rigorously teases out the consequences of a deep critique of Eurocentric epistemology, whether to rethink feminism through race, nationalism through ethnicity, or colonialism through sexuality.

Shohat’s critical method boldly transcends disciplinary and geographical boundaries. She explores such issues as the relations between ethnic studies and area studies, the paradoxical repercussions for audio-visual media of the “graven images” taboo, the allegorization of race through the refiguring of Cleopatra, the allure of imperial popular culture, and the gender politics of medical technologies. She also examines the resistant poetics of exile and displacement; the staging of historical memory through the commemorations of the two 1492s, the anomalies of the “national” in Zionist discourse, the implications of the hyphen in the concept “Arab-Jew,” and the translation of the debates on orientalism and postcolonialism across geographies. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices not only illuminates many of the concerns that have animated the study of cultural politics over the past two decades; it also points toward new scholarly possibilities.

CONTENTS
Illustrations
Preface
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
Index