A poetics of trauma the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / [electronic resource] :
Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Ilana Szobel.
- Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.
- xx, 177 p. : ill.
- HBI series on Jewish women .
- The Schusterman series in Israel studies .
- Schusterman series in Israel studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: what must be forgotten -- Forever beholden: the state of orphanhood -- Poetics of orphanhood -- "She has damaged the little girl": orphanhood and motherhood -- "His eldest daughter": women's symbolic orphanhood -- Estrangement: the project of female subjectivity -- Estrangement and the collision of perspectives -- "Imaginary geography": the gap between "here" and "over there" -- "She tried to escape and lost her senses": mania, depression, and madness -- The manic-depressive mode: poetics of mobilite -- "Therefore I invented conversation": speech about madness, and mad speech -- Unveiling injustice: testimony, complicity, and national identity -- "Hovering at a low altitude": witnessing and complicity -- "Guilt-ridden poems": the contamination of language and the departure from innocence -- "Stinging and itching"/"maddeningly": the Palestinians as the Israeli abjection -- Conclusion: "the transparent skin that unites us".
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781611683561 (electronic bk.)
Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005 --Criticism and interpretation.
Psychic trauma in literature. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Nationalism in literature.