Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry

by Zohar Weiman-Kelman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438472226
• ISBN13: 9781438472225
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"