Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Gendered Cartographies of Knowledge: Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies 1
6. Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of the Cinema 17
7. Sacred Word, Profane Image: Theologies of Adaptation 70
8. The Cinema after Babel: Language, Difference, Power (with Robert Stam) 106
9. ‘‘Lasers for Ladies’’: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science 139
10. Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity 166
11. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Visions: Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews 201
12. Notes on the ‘‘Post-Colonial’’ 233
13. Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational Diagnosis 250
14. Post–Third Worldist Culture: Gender, Nation, and the Cinema 290
15. Rupture and Return: Zionist Discourse and the Study of Arab-Jews 330
16. The ‘‘Postcolonial’’ in Translation: Reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew 359
17. Index 385
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND CREDITS 407