Shoshana Olidort

Subverting Hebrew’s Gender Binary: Grammar, Poetry, and Performance in the Work of Esther Raab

This article examines antigrammaticality in the work of the so-called first “native” modern Hebrew poet, Esther Raab, focusing in particular on how Raab deploys the constraints of Hebrew’s highly gendered grammar in her poems. I begin by considering the broad implications of gram...