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  • Race in Translation

    Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments inthe English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmativeaction, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Racein Translation charts thetransatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S.,France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

    Selected Writings of Ella Shohat

    by Ella Shohat ...
    *Winner of the MEMO Palestine Book Awards 2017*Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the pivotal figure of the Arab-Jew. This book gathers together her most influential political essays, interviews, speeches, testimonies and memoirs, as well ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flagging Patriotism

    Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    The question "Why do they hate us?" is one of the most oft-cited puzzles of contemporary American affairs, yet it’s not clear to whom "they" or "us" refers, nor even what "hate" means. In this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate discourse" of right-wing politics, placing it in an international context. How, for example, do other nations love themselves, and how is that ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

  • Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices

    by Ella Shohat, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Generations of Dissent

    Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Suzanne Gauch, Eman Morsi, Alessandro Columbu, Chloe Kattar, Ella Shohat, Brahim El Guabli, Yasmine Ramadan, Caroline McKusick ...
    Series series
    Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa. Born of the contributors’ research on dissidence and state co-option in a variety of artistic and creative fields, the ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between the Middle East and the Americas

    The Cultural Politics of Diaspora

    Edited by Ella Habiba Shohat, Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany ...
    Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent situation of Arabs/Muslims in the Americas, where they are at once celebrated and demonized, integrated ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    Edited by Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance

    The Power of Story

    by Professor Eric Selbin ...
    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Culture, Power, Place

    Explorations in Critical Anthropology

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson ...
    Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Contemporary

    Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

    by Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke0, Anupama Rao1, Adam Spanos2, Vinay Gidwani3 ...
    This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about ... Read more

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