A poetics of trauma : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / / Ilana Szobel.

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Superior document:The Schusterman series in Israel studies
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:HBI series on Jewish women
Schusterman series in Israel studies.
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Physical Description:xx, 177 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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 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".