A poetics of trauma [electronic resource] : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel.
Material type: TextSeries: HBI series on Jewish women | Schusterman series in Israel studiesPublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.Description: xx, 177 p. : illOther title:- Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
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- PJ5054.R265 Z87 2013
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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 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".
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