By Ella Shohat
Defying the binarist and Eurocentric Arab-versus-Jew rendering of the Israeli/Palestinian clash, Shohat’s paintings has dared to have interaction with the deeper ancient and cultural questions swirling round colonialism, Orientalism and nationalism. Shohat’s paradigm-shifting paintings unpacks such fraught concerns because the anomalies of the national/colonial in Zionist discourse; the narrating of Jewish pasts in Muslim areas; the hyperlinks and differences among the dispossession of the Nakba and the dislocation of Arab-Jews; the annoying stories brought on via partition and border-crossing; the echoes inside Islamophobia of the anti-Semitic determine of ‘the Jew’; and the efforts to visualize a potential destiny inter-communal ‘convivencia’.
Shohat’s transdisciplinary point of view illuminates the cultural politics in and round the center East. Juxtaposing texts of varied genres written in divergent contexts, the booklet deals a vibrant feel of the author’s highbrow journey.
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