A Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Informationen zum Autor ILANA SZOBEL is an assistant professor in Hebrew Literature at Brandeis University. Klappentext The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-length study of Ravikovitch in English, offers a theoretical discussion of the poetics of trauma and the politics of victimhood, as well as a rethinking of the notions of activity and passivity, strength and weakness. Analyzing the deep structure embodied in Ravikovitch's work, Szobel unearths the interconnectedness of Ravikovitch's private-poetic subjectivity and Israeli national identity, and shows how her unique poetics can help readers overcome cultural biases and sympathetically engage otherness. Zusammenfassung Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis! gender! nationalism! and trauma theory

Product details

• Authors: Ilana Szobel
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 08.01.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781611683554
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-355-4
• Pages: 200
• Series: Hbi Series on Jewish Women & t; HBI Series on Jewish Women; Hbi Jewish Women
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish; Literature - Classics / Criticism; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine