Living still with injury: writing reparative Midrash as an act of feminist resistant memory making

这个跨学科、以实践为基础的项目将考虑当代犹太人、女权主义者如何以米德拉什(犹太圣经注释)的模式写作，既可以肯定也可以调查文化传承和认同的复杂性。借鉴伊芙·科索夫斯基·塞奇威克的修复性阅读概念，这是一种“相加和增值”的关系立场，它清楚地表明，“自我和社区成功地从一种文化的对象中汲取了许多东西……他们公开的欲望往往不是为了维持它们。”我将从一种古怪的女权主义视角探索米德拉什作为活记忆的想法。我将介入对犹太教传统上由拉比斯--充满精神和学术权威的人--撰写的长达几代人的评论的模式、实践和收集--我将致力于女权主义的迫切要求，使被理解为“历史”的东西复杂化，开始变革记忆的工作。关注性别暴力和排斥是如何通过霸权文化记忆和“规范”的犹太传统传承下来的，这篇文章将建立一个对话空间，试图在阐明一种写作和生活模式的同时，以当代犹太女权主义者的身份‘接受’痛苦的过去。

This cross disciplinary, practice-based project will consider how contemporary Jewish, feminist writing in the mode of Midrash (Jewish biblical exegesis) can both affirm and investigate the complexities of cultural inheritance and identification. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's conception of reparative reading, an 'additive and accretive' relational stance which makes evident 'the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture...whose avowed desire has often been not to sustain them'i, I will explore the idea of Midrash as living memory from a queer, feminist perspective. An intervention into the mode, practice and collectionof a generations' long commentary on the sacred texts of Judaism traditionally written by Rabbis-men imbued with spiritual and scholarly authority-I will engage the feminist imperative to complicate what has been understood as 'history', to begin the work of transformative rememberingii. Attending to the ways in which gendered violence and exclusion have been passed down through hegemonic cultural memory and 'normative' Jewish tradition, this writing will establish a dialogic space which attempts to 'come to terms' with painful pasts whilst articulating a mode of writing, and living, otherwise as a contemporary Jewish feminist.