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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szobel, Ilana.

Series:

HBI Series on Jewish women & Schusterman series in Israel studies.

HBI Series on Jewish women & Schusterman series in Israel studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005--Criticism and interpretation.

Ravikovitch, Dalia.

Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xx, 177 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, [2013]

Summary:

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-length study of Ravikovitch in English, offers a theoretical discussion of the poetics of trauma and the politics of victimhood, as well as a rethinking of the notions of activity and passivity, strength and weakness. Analyzing the deep structure embodied in Ravikovitch's work, Szobel unearths the interconnectedness of Ravikovitch's private-poetic subjectivity and Israeli national identity, and shows how her unique poetics can help readers overcome cultural biases and sympathetically engage otherness. Book jacket.

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".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611683547

1611683548

9781611683554

1611683556

9781611683561

1611683564

OCLC:

785870466