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As the crisis in Israel does not show any signs of abating, this remarkable collection, edited by an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar and with contributions by Palestinian and Israeli women, offers a vivid and harrowing picture of the conflict and of its impact on daily life, especially as it affects women's experiences that differ significantly from those of men. The (auto)biographical narratives in this volume focus on some of the most disturbing effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a sense of dislocation that goes well beyond the geographical meaning of the word; it involves social, cultural, national and gender dislocation, including alienation from one's own home, family, community, and society. The accounts become even more poignant if seen against the backdrop of the roots of the conflict, the real or imaginary construct of a state to save and shelter particularly European Jews from the horrors of Nazism in parallel to the other side of the coin: Israel as a settler-colonial state responsible for the displacement of the Palestinian nation

Ever since George Washington warned against "foreign entanglements" in his 1796 farewell speech, the United States has wrestled with how to act toward other countries. Consequently, the history of anti-Americanism is as long and varied as the history of the United States. In this multidisciplinary collection, seventeen leading thinkers provide substance and depth to the recent outburst of fast talk on the topic of anti-Americanism by analyzing its history and currency in five key global regions: the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, and the United States. The commentary draws from social science as well as the humanities for an in-depth study of anti-American opinion and sentiment in different cultures. The questions raised by these essays force us to explore the new ways America must interact with the world after 9/11 and the war against Iraq. Contributors: Greg Grandin, Mary Louise Pratt, Ana Maria Dopico, George Yudice, Timothy Mitchell, Ella Shohat, Mary Nolan, Patrick Deer, Vangelis Calotychos, Harry Harootunian, Hyun Ok Park, Rebecca E. Karl, Moss Roberts, Linda Gordon, and John Kuo Wei Tchen

Comprised of twenty-seven interviews with leading researchers, intellectuals, artists, and activists, Critical Voices explores the ways in which power and popular mobilizations manifest in the contemporary region, as well as the representation of key dynamics, experiences, and figures. Through their own unique perspectives and possibilities, the interviewees and interviewers challenge the ways in which the region is studied, discussed, and represented. - Contributors: Awad Abdel Fattah, Sarah Al Abdali, Talal Asad, George Azar, Asli Bali, Nar Photos Collective, Angela Davis, Wael Gamal, Justin Gengler, Nigel Gibson, Nile Green, Ahmad Habib, Bassam Haddad, David Harvey, Jim House, Sonallah Ibrahim, Matan Kaminer, Leila Khaled, Nancy Kricorian, Driss Ksikes, Haytham Manna', Nabeel Rajab, Eastern Province Revolution, Ella Shohat, Zaid Shuaibi, Tariq Tell

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Beyond What? An Introduction -- Part 1 Globalization and the Postcolonial Eclipse -- Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe -- On Globalization, Again! -- The Ruins of Empire: The National and Global Politics of America's Return to Rome -- The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery -- Part 2 Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial World -- The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony -- A Flight from Freedom -- Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development -- ''The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into'': Quotidian Experience and the Perspectives of Poetry in Postliberation South Africa -- Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics -- part 3 Beyond the Nation-State (and Back Again) -- Environmentalism and Postcolonialism -- Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: The South African Differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams -- Pathways to Postcolonial Nationhood: The Democratization of Difference in Contemporary Latin America -- Traveling Multiculturalism: A Trinational Debate in Translation -- The Ballad of the Sad Café: Israeli Leisure, Palestinian Terror, and the Post/colonial Question -- Part 4 Postcolonial Studies and the Disciplines in Transformation -- Hybridity and Heresy: Apartheid Comparative Religion in Late Antiquity -- EugenicWoman, Semicolonialism, and Colonial Modernity as Problems for Postcolonial Theory -- The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies -- Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History -- The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from thirty-one luminaries—leading scholars, critics, writers, and activists—to engage Said's provocative ideas. Their essays and interviews explore the key themes of emancipation and representation through the prisms of postcolonial theory, literature, music, philosophy, and cultural studies.Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Ben Conisbee Baer, Daniel Barenboim, Timothy Brennan, Noam Chomsky, Denise DeCaires-Narain, Nicholas Dirks, Marc H. Ellis, Rokus de Groot, Sabry Hafez, Abdirahman A. Hussein, Ardi Imseis, Adel Iskandar, Ghada Karmi, Katherine Callen King, Joseph Massad, W. J. T. Mitchell, Laura Nader, Ilan Pappe, Benita Parry, Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Jahan Ramazani, Jacqueline Rose, Lecia Rosenthal, Hakem Rustom, Avi Shlaim, Ella Habiba Shohat, Robert Spencer, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Asha Varadharajan, Michael Wood

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SIGHT LINE -- I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights -- ONE. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification -- TWO. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary -- THREE. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalization -- FOUR. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State -- FIVE. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization -- SIX. Critical Contradictions: A Conversation among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See -- II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University -- SEVEN . A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education -- EIGHT. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means -- NINE. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University -- TEN. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity -- ELEVEN. Subjugated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing -- III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital -- TWELVE. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery -- THIRTEEN. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification -- FOURTEEN. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People -- FIFTEEN. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag -- IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity -- SIXTEEN. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention -- SEVENTEEN. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 -- EIGHTEEN. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life -- NINETEEN. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain -- TWENTY. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above -- V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures -- TWENTY-ONE. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire -- TWENTY-TWO. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence -- TWENTY-THREE. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn -- TWENTY-FOUR. Checkered Choices, Political Assertions: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La Asociación Nacional México-Americana -- TWENTY-FIVE. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index