A Poetics of Trauma : the Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.

Szobel, Ilana.

A Poetics of Trauma : the Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch. - Hanover : Brandeis University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (199 pages) - HBI Series on Jewish Women & The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 -- Manic-Depressive Mode: Poetics of Mobilite -- "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.

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



9781611683561


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.

PJ5054 / .P648 2012