Acknowledgments
Introduction: What to Expect When You're Not Expecting
1. Queer Lines: Adrienne Rich and Kadya Molodowsky
2. Vanished Hellas and Hebraic Pain: Emma Lazarus and Anna
Margolin
3. Waiting in Vain: Leah Goldberg and Anna Margolin
4. Heys Haunting: Poetics of Lesbian History
5. Community across Discontinuity
6. Translating Generations: Irena Klepfisz
Coda: Queering the Present of Jewish Literary History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Zohar Weiman-Kelman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
"...the book contributes to research in women literary studies and
is a valid example of applying queer theory." - Journal of
Modern Jewish Studies
"...more bold and far-reaching in its claims and aims than many of
its precursors ... Through her construction of a cross-temporal and
cross-linguistic genealogy of Jewish women's poetry, Weiman-Kelman
collapses the boundaries between theory and praxis in her own work,
showing how scholarship can be a locus for political change." -
In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
"Queer Expectations is one of the most original books of
literary analysis, historiography, biography, and queer theory I
have ever read. Its originality and its methodology turn
traditional ways of thinking about literary analysis, questions of
influence, and what queer can mean upside down. This is a truly
brilliant book." - Evelyn Torton Beck, editor of Nice Jewish
Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, Revised and Updated Edition
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