Legible lesbian lines: The bilingual poetry of Irena Klepfisz
| Autor: | Zohar Weiman-Kelman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Literature
History Poetry business.industry Judaism Poetry as Topic Homosexuality Female General Medicine History 20th Century United States Gender Studies Sexual and Gender Minorities Scholarship Politics Mode (music) Jews Humans Queer Female Lesbian business Neuroscience of multilingualism Language |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Lesbian Studies. 23:21-35 |
| ISSN: | 1540-3548 1089-4160 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10894160.2018.1499313 |
| Popis: | This article focuses on the poetry of Jewish lesbian poet Irena Klepfisz, written in New York starting in the 1970s. While drawing on the tradition of Yiddish women's poetry from the first half of the twentieth century, both as scholar and poet, Klepfisz also creates a brand new, bilingual, Yiddish-English poetic mode. By mobilizing both Yiddish and English to voice her poetic and political concerns, Klepfisz stages the English/Yiddish encounter as a site where dominant norms in both languages can be challenged and new possibilities emerge. Exploring both her turn to the past and her bilingual poetry, this article reveals how Klepfisz puts her politics and scholarship to poetic practice and suggests that Klepfisz offers a model of queer translation that undoes the borders between past and present, English and Yiddish, creating a unique mode of Jewish lesbian reclamation and invention. |
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