Poetics of trauma : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch, A
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Nationalism in literature Psychic trauma in literature Ravikovitch, Dalia, e-böcker
Brandeis University Press
2013
EISBN 9781611683561
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".
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".
