02642nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10640705 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120703s2013 maua sb 001 0deng d 2012025573 9781611683547 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781611683554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781611683561 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)829455653 PJ5054.R265 Z87 2013eb 892.4/16 23 Szobel, Ilana. A poetics of trauma [electronic resource] : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel. Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013. xx, 177 p. : ill. HBI series on Jewish women The Schusterman series in Israel studies 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 mobilit�e -- "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". Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005 Criticism and interpretation. Psychic trauma in literature. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Nationalism in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Schusterman series in Israel studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10640705 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 48831 48831