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ELLA SHOHAT

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Essays In Books
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ESSAYS IN BOOKS

  •  "Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situated Diagnosis," in Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies, Isaac Julien & Mark Nash, eds., Duke University Press, forthcoming 2001. 
  • "Entering Language(s),"  in Fear in One's Own Country: Israeli and Palestinian Intellectuals in Dialogue, Rafik Schami & Johannes Fehr (eds.), forthcoming, 2001. German) 
  • "Postcolonial Reflections on the artwork of Lynne Yamamoto," Fresh Talk: Asian Art, Elain Kim & Margo Machida eds., University of California Press, forthcoming 2001. 
  • ""Coming to America": Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss,"  Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers,  Lisa Suhair Majaj & Amal Amireh, eds., Garland Publishers, 2000, pp. 284-300.
  • "What is the Link Between Chosen Genres and Developed Ideologies in African Cinema?," respondent, Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image, June Givanni, ed., British Film Institute, 2000, pp. 122-133. 
  • "Film Theory and Spectatorship in the Age of the 'Posts'," (co-authored with R. Stam), Reinventing Film Studies, Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams, eds., Arnold, 2000, 381-401. 
  • "Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions" in Performing Hybridity, May Joseph & Jennifer Fink eds., University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 131-156.
  • "By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diasporic Vistas," House, Exile, and Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place, Hamid Naficy , ed. Routledge, 1999, pp. 213-232 
  • "Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics,"  (coauthored with R. Stam), Introduction to The Visual Culture Reader, Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. Routledge, 1998, pp. 27-49.
  • "Columbus, Palestine, and Arab Jews: Toward A Relational Approach to Community Identity," in Cultural Readings of Imperialism, Keith Ansell Pearson, Benita Parry & Judith Squires (eds) Lawrence & Wishart in association with New Formations (Britain, 1997), pp. 88-105. (republished, anthologized & translated)
  • "Post-Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema," Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Mohanty (eds.), Routledge, 1996, pp. 183-209.
  • "From the Imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization," (with R. Stam) Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Rob Wilson & Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 145-170 (translated & republished) 
  • "Exile, Diaspora, and Return," Discourse and Palestine, Annelies Moors, Toine van Teeffelen, Sharif Kanaana, Ilham Abu Ghazaleh (eds.) Het Spinhuis Press (The Netherlands), 1995, pp. 221-236. (republished) 
  • "The Struggle Over Representation: Casting, Coalitions, and the Politics of Identification" in Late Imperial Culture, Roman De La Campa, E. Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker (eds.), Verso, 1995, pp. 166-178. 
  • "Contested Histories: Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism, and the Media" (with R. Stam), Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader, David Theo Goldberg (ed.), Blackwell, 1994, pp. 296-324.
  • "Antinomies of Exile: Said at the Frontiers of National Narrations," The Edward Said Reader, Michael Sprinker (ed.), Blackwell Press, 1993, pp. 121-143.
  • "Making the Silences Speak," Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel, Barbara Swirski & Marilyn Safir (eds.) Pergamon Press, 1991. pp. 31-40. (translated & anthologized)
  • "Ethnicities-in-Relation: Toward a Multi-Cultural Reading of American Cinema" 
  • "Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema," Lester Friedman (ed.) (University of Illinois Press, 1991), pp. 215-250.
  • "Master Narrative/Counter Readings," Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History, Robert Sklar & Charles Musser (eds.), Temple University Press, 1990. pp. 251-278 (translated and anthologized)
  • "Israeli Cinema," World Cinema Since 1945, William Luhr (ed.) Ungar Publishing, 1987. pp. 330-346. 
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    ARTICLES/ESSAYS IN JOURNALS
  • "Geographies of Spectatorship: Postcolonial Visual Culture,"  The Journal of Visual Culture (inaugural issue), forthcoming, 2002
  • "Travelling Multiculturalism: French Intellectuals and the U.S. Culture Wars," Black Renaissance Noir, forthcoming Fall 2001 (co-authored).
  • "Area Studies, Transnationalism and the Production of Knowledge," Signs (a special issue on "Gender and Globalization"), forthcoming Fall 2001. 
  • "Conversation about Feminism and Transnationalism," Estudos Feministas (Feminist Studies), published by Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Sociais (Institute for Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Brazil), Florianopolis, Brazil, Nov. 2000, forthcoming Fall 2001.
  • "Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Shaping of a Mizrahi Epistemology,"  Hagar Journal, forthcoming  Fall 2001.
  • "Talking Visions, Talking Art, Talking Politics," Interview with Meera Sethi about Talking Visions for Fuse: A Magazine About Issues of Art and Culture, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 30 2000, forthcoming Spring 2001.
  • "The Invention of the Mizrahim" Journal of Palestine Studies, Number 1, Autumn 1999, pp. 5-20. 
  • "American Orientalism" Suitcase 2:1&2, 1997, pp. 56-61.
  • "The Narrative of the Nation and the Discourse of Modernization: the Case of the Mizrahim," Critique 10 (Spring 1997) pp. 3-18. (Translated, anthologized, & republished)
  • "Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism," published simultaneously in three languages-- English (News From Within), Arabic (Rou'iya Oukhra), Hebrew (Mitzad Sheni), 12:4, April 1996. pp. 17-26. (Translated & anthologized)
  • "The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora," in Middle Eastern Identities in Transition, UCLA Near East Center Colloquium Series, 1995. pp. 65-108. (republished) 
  • "Race Matters for Feminism: A Mizrahi Feminist Perspective" in News from Within 10:8, August 1994 (Based on my speech delivered at the plenary session of the 10th Feminist Conference in Israel, June 1994.) (Translated & republished) 
  • "Likrat Feminism Rav Tarbuti" ("Toward a Multicultural Feminism," Klaf Hazak: Feminist Lesbian Community 12 (Summer 1994), pp. 14-20 (Hebrew; republished) 
  • "'Lasers for Ladies': Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science," Camera Obscura (special issue on Feminist Film Theory and Medical Technologies,) 29, (Fall 1993), pp. 56-89 (anthologized) 
  • "Can Popular Culture Be Politically Correct?," Social Text, 36 (Fall 1993), pp. 22-26. 
  • "Staging the Quincentenary: The Middle East and the Americas," Third Text (London) (Special issue on "The Wake of Utopia"), 21 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 95-105. 
  • "Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections" Middle East Report, September-October, 1992, pp. 25-29. 
  • "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5 (Fall-Winter, 1992) p. 8. (Republished & anthologized) 
  • "Notes on the `Post-Colonial'," Social Text, 31-32 (Spring 1992) pp. 99-113. (anthologized) 
  • "Territories of the National Imagination," Transition 53 (Spring 1991) pp. 124-132. 
  • "The Media's War," Social Text 28 (Spring 1991) pp. 135-141 (anthologized) 
  • "Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema," Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 131:1-2 (Spring 1991), pp. 45-84. (anthologized & translated) 
  • "Imaging Terra Incognita: The Disciplinary Gaze of Empire," Public Culture, 3:2 (Spring 1991), pp. 41-70.
  • "Gender in Hollywood's Orient," Middle East Report, 162 (January-February 1990), pp. 40-43. 
  • "From Didactic Texts to Allegorical Readings," Jewish Ethnology Review, 11:1-2 (1989), pp. 38-41.
  • "Orientalism and Its Discontents," Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 49 (October, 1989) (Hebrew) pp. 4-11. 
  • "Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine," Wide Angle, 11:3 (July 1989) (special issue on Asian cinema) pp. 33-41 (republished)
  • "Wedding in Galilee," Middle East Report, 154, (September-October 1988) pp. 44-46.
  • "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism From the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims," Social Text, 19/20, (Fall 1988) (special issue on Colonial Discourse) pp. 1-35. (translated, republished, anthologized) 
  • "Ricochets: Shoot-and-Cry Male Heroism," Cineaste 26:3 (Spring 1988). pp. 41-44 
  • "Zelig and Contemporary Theory: Meditation on the Chameleon Text," Enclitic 9:1-2 (Fall 1987). (co-authored) pp. 176-193. (translated and anthologized) 
  • "On the Representation of Ethnicity and Sexuality," Prosa 100 (Fall 1987), pp. 160-171. 
  • "From the Black Panthers Rebellions to Underground Women's Theater: Jewish Exile in the Promised Land" Pa'amon (Hebrew, Tel Aviv)) (August 1987) pp. 5-9 
  • "The Unemployed Battito: Gender, Development Towns, and the Israeli Third World," Pa'amon July 1987) pp. 6-11 
  • "The Return of the Repressed: The 'Palestinian Wave' in Recent Israeli Cinema," Cineaste 15:3 (Spring 1987). pp. 10-17. 
  • "The Cinema After Babel: Language, Difference, Power," Screen (London) 26:3-4 (May-August 1985) (special issue "Other Cinemas, Other Criticisms) (co-authored) pp. 35-58 (translated and anthologized) 
  • "The Trouble with Hanna," Film Quarterly 38:2 (Winter 1984-85) pp. 50-55 (co-authored) (translated and republished) 
  • "Egypt: Cinema and Revolution," Critical Arts: A Journal for Media Studies 2:4 (March 1983) (special issue on Third World Cinema) pp. 22-32 
  • "Racism in the Cinema: Proposal for a Methodological Investigation,"  Critical Arts 2:4 (March 1983), (contributing author) pp. 6-12. 
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ESSAYS ANTHOLOGIZED, REPUBLISHED, AND TRANSLATED


  • "HaMigdar ba"Orient" HaHolivudi," translated into Hebrew from "Dislocated Identities," in HaKivun Mizrah,  #2, May 2001, pp. 73-78.
  • "The Invention of the Mizrahim," anthologized in Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Culturalist Challenges and Governmental Reponses, Haldun Gulalp & Gunter Seufert, eds., Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2002.
  • "Zehuyot Shsu'ot" (translated into Hebrew from "Dislocated Identities"), re-published in Ha-Kivun Mizrah (East-Word)
  • "Narrative Al/Kriot Bikortiyot,"  (translated into Hebrew from "Master Narrative/Counter Readings") anthologized in "Fictive Looks On Israeli Cinema," Nurith Gertz, Orly Lubin, Judd Ne'eman (eds.), The Open University (Tel Aviv), 1998, pp. 44-66. 
  • "Manthumat al-uma wa-khitab al-t'haditht: halat al-Yahud al-Mizrah" translated into Arabic from "The Narrative of the Nation and the Discourse of Modernization: the Case of the Mizrahim," Majalat al-Adab wal-Fan (The Journal of Literature and Culture, Cairo, Egypt), June 1998, pp. 45-60; translated into German from "Nation und Modernisierung: der Fall der Mizrahim" in Hundert Jahre Zionismus: Befriung oder Unterdrückung?, ISP Köln, 1998, pp. 75-89 and "Nation, Modernisierung und die orientalischen Juden" translated into German, Inamo, Nr. 13, Jahrgang 4 Fruhjahr '98 Preis DM 10(Berlin), pp. 29-33. 
  • "Les Séfarades au miroir des bourekas," translated into French from the chapter "The "Bourekas" and Sephardi Representation" in Israeli Cinema, Les Cahiers de Judaïsme, numéro 2, été 1998, pp. 59-63. 
  • "'Lasers for Ladies': Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science," anthologized in The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender, and Science, Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, Constance Penley, eds., New York University Press, 1998, pp. 240-272, 
  • "Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism," News From Within (published simultaneously in the three languages-- English, Arabic (Rou'iya Oukhra), Hebrew (Mitzad Sheni)-- in which the journal is published), anthologized in German (Orientalische-j_dishe feministische Bewegung), in Daheim im Exil: Orientalische' Juden in Israel, Ulla Philipps-Heck (ed.), Wochenschau Verlag, 1998, pp. 106-123. 
  • "Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews: Toward A Relational Approach to Community Identity," republished in Orientalism and History, Edmund Burke, III & Dilip Basu (eds.), University of Michigan Press, forthcoming (2001); in The New Crusades, Rabia Ali & Emran Qureshi (eds) with introductions by Iqbal Ahmad and Edward Said, The Pamphleteer's Press, forthcoming 2001; "Kulumbus, Filastin, wa al-Yahud al-'Arab: Nahwa Muqarabah 'alaeiqiyyah li huwiyyat al-Majmu'ah," translation into Arabic, Al Karmil edited by Mahmoud Darwish (Spring/Summer Issue, 1997) 
  • "Framing Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation and Diaspora in Middle Eastern/North African Film and Video" republished in Al-Raida  (Lebanese-American University, Vol. Xvi, no. 86-87, Summer/Fall 1999); republished in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University, 1997. 
  • "Exile, Diaspora, and Return," republished in Xtext (issue on "Critical Identities," June 1997, pp. 27-39) 
  • "Mizrahim beIsrael Hatzionut Menekudat Mabatam Shel Korbanoteha Hayehudim" translation into Hebrew and into Arabic "al-Sayunia min mantlia thahaiaha al-Yahud," of "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims," Opening essay Hamahapekha haMizrahit, Jerusalem: The Alternative Information Center, 1995; Translation into Arabic, "al-Sayunia min mantlia thahaiaha al-Yahud," an opening essay in Al-Yahud al-Sharqiyeen fi Isra'il (Arabic), 'Adel Samara, ed.1998, and in Al Thawra Al-Sharqiya , The Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem, 1999; in Al Diasat al Filastinya (Journal of Palestine Studies), Winter 1998, pp. 105-177; in Kan'an, no. 89, March 1998, Ramalla, West Bank, pp. 43-95; anthologized in Dangerous Liaisons, McClintock, Mufti, Shohat (eds.), 1997; republished in a special issue of News From Within devoted to the essay's repercussions since it first appeared in print a decade ago, Vol XIII: 1, Jan. 1997. 
  • "Notes on the 'Post-Colonial," in The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies, Fauzia Afzal-Khan & Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (eds.), Duke University Press, 2000, pp. 126-139; in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Padmani Mongia (ed.), Arnold, 1996, pp. 322-334. 
  • "Estereotipo, Realismo E Representacao Racial" (with R. Stam), translated into Portuguese from "Stereotype, Realism and the Struggle Over Representation," a short version pf the 5th chapter of Unthinking Eurocentrism, republished in Imagens 5, Dec. 1995, an issue dedicated to 100 year of cinema. 
  • "Da Familia Imperial Ao Imaginario Transnacional" translated into Portuguese from "From the imperial Family to the Transnational Imaginary" in Communicacao & Politica 11:4 (Aug-Nov, 1995), pp. 122-145. 
  • "The Politics of Multiculturalism in the Postmodern Age" (with R. Stam), Art & Design No. 43, 1995. pp. 10-16 (republished as a short version of the last chapter of Unthinking Eurocentrism) 
  • "Likrat Feminism Rav Tarbuti" republication of "Toward a Multicultural Feminism," Noga: A Feminist Journal, 28, Winter 1995, pp. 20- 25. (Hebrew) 
  • "The Media's War," in Seeing Through the Media: the Persian Gulf War, Susan Jeffords & Lauren Rabinovitz (eds.), Rutgers University press, 1994, pp. 147-154. 
  • "Ledovev et Hashtikot," (translated into Hebrew from "Making the Silences Speak") anthologized in Hahevra haIsraelit: Hebetim Bikortyim (Israeli Society: Critical Perspectives), Uri Ram (ed.) Breirot (Tel Aviv, 1993), pp. 245-252; Also forthcoming in German, in The German-Israeli Working Group for Peace in the Middle East, Ulla Philipps-Heck (ed.), 1997
  • "Gender and the Culture of Empire" anthologized in Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studler (eds.), Rutgers University Press, 1997, as an introductory essay, pp. 19-66; in Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, Hamid Naficy and Teshome Gabriel (eds.), Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993, pp. 23-44.; in Cinema Action: 20 ans de theories feministes du cinema as "La difference sexuelle et la culture imperial: vers une ethnographie feministe du cinema," translated into French from "Gender and the Culture of Empire," Berenice Reynaud & Ginette Vincendeau (eds.), (CinemaAction, Paris, 1993), pp. 15-29. 
  • "Dislocated Identities," translated into Arabic "Hawiyat Musta mila min Banooraha  in Muntada Alfikr Al Arabi" (Arab Thought Form, Amman, Jordan), issue# 177, July, 1999 republished in Emergences 3/4 (Fall 1992), pp. 39-43; Nasawi- Ivri Vol. 1 #1, Summer 1997; Fellowship Vol. 64, #5-6, May/June 1998, pp. 4-5. 
  • "Textes didactiques, interpretations allegoriques," section translated into French from "Master Narrative/Counter Readings" and published in Cinema d'Israel, Lea Herman (ed.), Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume (Paris), 1992 
  • "Anomalies of the National," republished in Sight and Sound (London), Vol. 1 No. 12, (Winter 1992) pp. 220-223 
  • "Zelig (1983)," translated into Portuguese and anthologized in O Cinema Dos Anos 80, Amir Labaki (ed.), Editora Brasiliense (Sao Paulo, Brazil), 1991. pp. 111-142. 
  • "The Cinema After Babel: Language, Difference, Power," anthologized in Literary Theories in Praxis, Shirley Staton (ed.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. pp. 234-247; Translated into Spanish, "Cine, lenguaje y poder," Mirada de tres Mundos (Havana, Cuba.) no. 1, January-June 1990. 
  • "Le Chagrin de Hanna," translated into French from the "Trouble with Hanna,"  Perspective Judeo-Arabes (Paris) 2 (April-June 1985) pp. 22-27 
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