Queer Expectations: a Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Speaker: Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Chair: Professor Lynne Segal (Birkbeck)
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Bringing together Jewish women’s poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew from late nineteenth century through the 1970s, this talk will explore 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, Weiman-Kelman demonstrates how poets such as Emma Lazarus, Leah Goldberg, Anna Margolin, and Adrienne Rich 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 thus enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures.
This event is sponsored by BISR, BiGS and the Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
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Lou Miller
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