TY - BOOK AU - Szobel,Ilana ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A poetics of trauma: the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch T2 - The Schusterman series in Israel studies AV - PJ5054.R265 Z87 2013eb U1 - 892.4/16 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Waltham, Mass. PB - Brandeis University Press KW - Ravikovitch, Dalia, KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Alienation (Social psychology) in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 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"; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10640705 ER -