A poetics of trauma

Description:

"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." -- Publisher's website.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Psychic trauma in literature,  Alienation (Social psychology) in literature,  Nationalism in literature,  Identity (Psychology) in literature,  Israeli literature, history and criticism,  Israeli Poets,  History and criticism

People: Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005)