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A poetics of trauma

by Szobel, Ilana.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: HBI series on Jewish women | The Schusterman series in Israel studies Published by : Brandeis University Press, (Waltham, Mass. :) Physical details: xx, 177 p. : ill.
Subject(s): 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.
Year: 2013
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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.

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