A poetics of trauma [electronic resource] : the work of Dahlia Ravikovitch / Ilana Szobel.

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".