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Queer expectations : a genealogy of Jewish women's poetry
- Title
- Queer expectations : a genealogy of Jewish women's poetry / Zohar Weiman-Kelman.
- Author
- Weiman-Kelman, Zohar, 1982-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xxx, 199 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures. Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing "queer expectancy" as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before. Bringing together Jewish women's poetry from the late nineteenth century, the interwar period, and the 1970s and 1980s, Weiman-Kelman takes readers on a boundary-crossing journey through works in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, setting up encounters between writers of different generations, locations, and languages. Queer Expectations highlights genealogical lines of continuity drawn by authors as diverse as Emma Lazarus, Kadya Molodowsky, Leah Goldberg, Anna Margolin, Irena Klepfisz, and Adrienne Rich. These poets push back against heteronormative imperatives of biological reproduction and inheritance, opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history. Looking backward in queer ways enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures" -- From the publisher.
- Series Statement
- Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
- Subjects
- Hebrew poetry, Modern
- Yiddish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
- Lesbians in literature
- Hebrew poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
- Hebrew poetry, Modern > History and criticism
- Jewish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
- Jewish lesbians > Poetry > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Lesbianism in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Text in English, with some translated from the Hebrew and from the Yiddish.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : what to expect when you're not expecting -- Queer lines : Adirenne Rich and Kadya Molodowsky -- Vanished Hellas and Hebraic pain : Emma Lazarus and Anna Margolin -- Waiting in vain : Leah Goldberg and Anna Margolin -- Heys haunting : poetics of lesbian history -- Community across discontinuity -- Translating generations : Irena Klepfisz -- Queering the present of Jewish literay history.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2311
- ISBN
- 9781438472232
- 1438472234
- 1438472242
- 9781438472249
- 9781438472249 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017061601
- OCLC
- 1019839638
- Author
- Weiman-Kelman, Zohar, 1982- author.
- Title
- Queer expectations : a genealogy of Jewish women's poetry / Zohar Weiman-Kelman.
- Publisher
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and cultureSUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2311