- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 177 [1] p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- HBI Series on Jewish women & Schusterman series in Israel studies
- Uniform Title
- Poetics of trauma (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Poetics of trauma (Online)
- Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-168) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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".
- LCCN
- 2012025573
- OCLC
- ssj0000827132
- Author
Szobel, Ilana.
- Title
A poetics of trauma [electronic resource] : 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
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-168) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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