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Virtual Program
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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman—The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)
November 3, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Virtual Program
Program Fee: $36.00
The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.
3 Thursdays: 11/3, 11/10 and 11/17
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