Criticism as Creative Form

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In opposition to a pervasive understanding of creativity as a practice of a solitary mind fashioning something from nothing, criticism—writing about literature, art, and other cultural objects—makes explicit the reality that aesthetic and intellectual production always occurs in conversation. The critical practices of contextualization, interpretation, appraisal, and critique can be generative modes of new and revitalized relation with texts, with one another, and with the world. What kinds of responsibilities does the critic have? What relationship should critically have to the contested project of canonization? What literary and political thinking, imagination, and action does this inherently dialogic mode make possible?

The Politics of Literary Practice

Join Jewish Currents for a series of three conversations—on poetry, criticism, and translation—to explore the relationships between politics and literary form. Considering the history and present of the genres in question, participants will discuss the various ways that textual practices structure our imaginations—and how they chart possibilities for reading, thinking, and living otherwise.

Check out the other two events in the series: Poetry and Freedom Movement and Translation, Migration, Mobilization.

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