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Journal Article
Lectures to Specters Ozick's Genealogies
2024
Overview
Shriver seems not to have considered, or not to have been able to consider, that conveying a message about Judaism and antisemitism, let alone \"the Jewish experience,\" may not be among the aims of a novel by Ozick.4 Given this overwhelming scholarly focus on the presumed conflict between Jewish ethics and (pagan) art, virtually no attention has been paid to the centrality of sexual and genealogical deviance in Ozick's work. Genealogy has received little attention from Jewish literary scholars more broadly, despite Western modernity's general association of Jews with sexual deviance and the specific centrality of what Dory Fox has characterized as \"the biological imagination\" in Jewish American culture.5 Genealogy has appeared, however, as a key term for recent critical work in Jewish literary study. \"7 Queerness, for Weiman-Kelman, names literature's capacity for relation across time at the precise point where socially sanctioned forms of relation (that is, reproductive family) become impossible or oppressive. Yet precisely there lies her writing's deepest appeal: displacing the (still all-too-vibrant) biopolitical crush of continuity with an aesthetic futurity of a queerer sort, Ozick thematizes and amplifies the affordances of literature for Jewish modernity.14 LIFE AND ART, OR, GENEALOGIES OF YIDDISH TRANSLATION Published in Commentary in 1969, \"Envy\" was one of Ozick's breakout stories and a major factor in establishing her reputation as a specifically (and polemically) Jewish writer-that is, \"a moralist who also happens to be a supreme stylist.
