A the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch Szobel, Ilana. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. mau Waltham, Mass Brandeis University Press c2013 2013 monographic eng

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xx, 177 p. : ill. 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". Ilana Szobel. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 PJ5054.R265 Z87 2013eb 892.4/16 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10640705 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10640705 CaPaEBR 120703 ebr10640705