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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiman-Kelman, Zohar, 1982- author.

Contributor:

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture

Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Hebrew

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Yiddish poetry.

Women authors.

Hebrew poetry.

Jewish poetry--Women authors.

Jewish poetry.

Jewish lesbians--Poetry.

Jewish lesbians.

Yiddish poetry--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry, Modern.

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.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxx, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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.

Notes:

Text in English, with some translated from the Hebrew and from the Yiddish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781438472232

1438472234

9781438472225

1438472226

1438472242

9781438472249

OCLC:

1019839638