"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.
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