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A poetics of trauma : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Title
A poetics of trauma : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel.
Author
Szobel, Ilana.
Publication
Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.

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Description
xx, 177 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
  • HBI Series on Jewish women
  • Schusterman series in Israel studies
Uniform Title
  • HBI series on Jewish women.
  • Schusterman series in Israel studies.
Alternative Title
Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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 mobilité -- "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".
Call Number
JFE 13-475
ISBN
  • 9781611683547 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611683548 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781611683554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1611683556 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012025573
OCLC
785870466
Author
Szobel, Ilana.
Title
A poetics of trauma : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel.
Imprint
Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.
Series
HBI Series on Jewish women
Schusterman series in Israel studies
HBI series on Jewish women.
Schusterman series in Israel studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-475
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