“Prophetic Strength and Prophetic Weakness in the Face of Catastrophe” with Professor Yosefa Raz
October 23, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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As an introduction to her recent The Poetics of Prophecy and as an oblique mirror to our contemporary moment – Raz will discuss two modern poets who faced catastrophe: H.N. Bialik and M. NourbeSe Philip. Rather than speaking from the clarity and certainty of the mountain-top, they spoke from the valley of death and from the hold of the ship. They drew on the language of the Bible to speak the tongue of storm and stutter, to use the prophetic mode not to summon authority and power, but to untune literary traditions and national narratives.
Dr. Yosefa Raz is an associate professor at the University of Haifa. Her book The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition was published this year by Cambridge University Press.
Co-sponsored by the UIC Department of English, Institute for the Humanities, and Religious Studies Program.
Date posted
Oct 1, 2024
Date updated
Oct 1, 2024