The Empress Has No Closure

Adeena Karasick

The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centre-piece, the “Alefbet Transfers,” a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.

 

Reviews:

“The Empress Has No Closure is an impressive deconstruction of language and meaning that is already finding an enthusiastic audience among feminist (mostly) academics, and will … find (a)n (un)stable place in the corpus of texts that are changing, and being changed by, contemporary pedagogies.”
— Canadian Literature

“ … all of it hums with intellectual energy, much of it is even funny … ”
— Books in Canada