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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szobel, Ilana.

Series:

Schusterman series in Israel studies.

HBI series on Jewish women

The Schusterman series in Israel studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

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

Ravikovitch, Dalia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis, gender, nationalism, and trauma theory

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781283915694

1283915693

9781611683561

1611683564

OCLC:

823388685