A poetics of trauma
Szobel, Ilana.
A poetics of trauma the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / [electronic resource] : Ilana Szobel. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - HBI Series on Jewish women & 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".
9781611683561
Ravikovitch, Dahlia, 1936-2005 --Criticism and interpretation.
Nationalism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Electronic books.
PJ5054.R265 / Z87 2013
892.4/16
A poetics of trauma the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / [electronic resource] : Ilana Szobel. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - HBI Series on Jewish women & 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".
9781611683561
Ravikovitch, Dahlia, 1936-2005 --Criticism and interpretation.
Nationalism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Electronic books.
PJ5054.R265 / Z87 2013
892.4/16