Title: 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)