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JOSEPH(INE), THE SINGER: THE QUEER JOSEPH AND MODERN JEWISH WRITERS.

This paper takes up the lens of Queer Theory to re-examine the Joseph story, as told in the Bible and as interpreted in rabbinic sources. It also looks at the way this reading relates to four modern works that re-imagine Joseph: Franz Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or: the Mouse Folk" Nurit Zarchi's...

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Published in:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues no. 24; pp. 97 - 120
Main Author: Zierler, Wendy
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Indiana University Press Spring2013
Subjects:
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Zarchi, Nurit
Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk (Book)
Rabbinical literature
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