Description |
xx, 177 p. : ill. |
Series |
HBI series on Jewish women
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The Schusterman series in Israel studies |
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Schusterman series in Israel studies.
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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.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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Added Title |
Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch |
ISBN |
9781611683547 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781611683554 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781611683561 (electronic bk.) |
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