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She Sermonizes in Wool and Flax: Dvora Baron's Literary Vernacular
Ist Teil von
Prooftexts, 2003-03, Vol.23 (2), p.182-209
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
For Baron, literary production was a function of translating into text the oral process of Torah study as she experienced it, sitting apart from the men in her father's synagogue and calling out questions to her father as he taught male students. Because for Baron literary texts were essentially oral at their inception, she created literary texts that in their very textuality could maintain and thematize an oral identity. The narrator's voice, however, becomes, in the course of the rabbi's sermon, more and more dominant, suppressing the rabbi's voice and giving the silent auditors of the sermon, such as the women in the women's section, their own voices. Because Baron does not make it typographically easy to identify quoted speech, we are not quite certain where the rabbi's speech ends and the narrator's perspective begins. [...]we exit the synagogue and escort the only woman present for the sermon in the women's section back to her house. According to Gates, "speakerly" texts can be distinguished from literary texts that simply attempt to communicate oral discourse in that speakerly texts privilege their textuality even as they poke fun at it; the juncture between the oral and the textual is simultaneously created and challenged.