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Author Szobel, Ilana.

Title A poetics of trauma [electronic resource] : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel.

Imprint Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.

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Description xx, 177 p. : ill.
Series HBI series on Jewish women
The Schusterman series in Israel studies
Schusterman series in Israel studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
ISBN 9781611683547 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611683554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781611683561 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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