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如何在米德拉士（犹太圣经注释）模式的当代犹太，女权主义写作既可以肯定和调查文化传承和身份的复杂性。借鉴Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick的修复性阅读概念，一种“添加剂和增值”的关系立场，它表明了"自我和社区成功地从文化对象中汲取营养的多种方式“。他们公开的愿望往往是不维持他们的我，我将探讨米德拉士的想法，从一个奇怪的，女权主义的角度活的记忆。一个干预到模式，实践和收集的几代人的长期评论犹太教的神圣文本传统上写的拉比男子充满了精神和学术权威，我将从事女权主义的必要复杂化已被理解为“历史”，开始工作的变革memberingii。注意到性别暴力和排斥的方式已经通过霸权文化记忆和“规范”犹太传统传递下来，这种写作将建立一个对话空间，试图与痛苦的过去“达成协议”，同时阐明一种写作模式，生活，否则作为当代犹太女权主义者。

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.