TY - BOOK AU - Szobel,Ilana ED - Project Muse. TI - A poetics of trauma: the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch T2 - HBI Series on Jewish women & Schusterman series in Israel studies SN - 9781611683561 AV - PJ5054.R265 Z87 2013 U1 - 892.4/16 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Waltham, Mass. PB - Brandeis University Press KW - Ravikovitch, Dahlia, KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Alienation (Social psychology) in literature KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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" UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611683561/ ER -