Title Queer expectations : a genealogy of Jewish women's poetry / Zohar Weiman-Kelman

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 199 pages) Series Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction What to Expect When You're Not Expecting; Chapter One Queer Lines: Adrienne Rich and Kadya Molodowsky; Chapter Two Vanished Hellas and Hebraic Pain: Emma Lazarus and Anna Margolin; Chapter Three Waiting in Vain: Leah Goldberg and Anna Margolin; Chapter Four Heys Haunting: Poetics of Lesbian History; Chapter Five Community across Discontinuity; Chapter Six Translating Generations: Irena Klepfisz; Coda Queering the Present of Jewish Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index 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"--The publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Hebrew poetry, Modern -- History and criticism Jewish lesbians -- Poetry -- History and criticism Jewish poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Hebrew poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Yiddish poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Lesbianism in literature. Lesbians in literature. Lesbian heroines in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Lesbian heroines in literature Hebrew poetry, Modern Jewish poetry -- Women authors Lesbianism in literature Lesbians in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438472249 1438472242

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