A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
Brandeis University Press, 2013
Paper: 978-1-61168-355-4 | Cloth: 978-1-61168-354-7 | eISBN: 978-1-61168-356-1
Library of Congress Classification PJ5054.R265Z87 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.416
Paper: 978-1-61168-355-4 | Cloth: 978-1-61168-354-7 | eISBN: 978-1-61168-356-1
Library of Congress Classification PJ5054.R265Z87 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.416
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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