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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462745003321

Autore

Szobel Ilana

Titolo

A poetics of trauma [[electronic resource] ] : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / / Ilana Szobel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-91569-3

1-61168-356-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

The Schusterman series in Israel studies

HBI series on Jewish women

Disciplina

892.4/16

Soggetti

Psychic trauma in literature

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Nationalism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 mobiliteĢ -- "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".

Sommario/riassunto

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