A poetics of trauma the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch /
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| Language: | English |
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Waltham, Mass. :
Brandeis University Press,
c2013.
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| Series: | HBI series on Jewish women
Schusterman series in Israel studies. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 mobilité
- "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".