Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Must Be Forgotten -- Part 1 ][ Forever Beholden The State of Orphanhood -- 1. Poetics of Orphanhood -- 2. "She Has Damaged the Little Girl": Orphanhood and Motherhood -- 3. "His Eldest Daughter": Women's Symbolic Orphanhood -- Part 2 ][ Estrangement The Project of Female Subjectivity -- 4. Estrangement and the Collision of Perspectives -- 5. "Imaginary Geography": The Gap between "Here" and "Over There" -- Part 3 ][ "She Tried to Escape and Lost Her Senses" Mania, Depression, and Madness -- 6. The Manic-Depressive Mode: Poetics of Mobilité -- 7. "Therefore I Invented Conversation": Speech about Madness, and Mad Speech -- Part 4 ][ Unveiling Injustice Testimony, Complicity, and National Identity -- 8. "Hovering at a Low Altitude": Witnessing and Complicity -- 9. "Guilt-Ridden Poems": The Contamination of Language and the Departure from Innocence -- 10. "Stinging and Itching/Maddeningly": The Palestinians as the Israeli Abjection -- Conclusion: "The Transparent Skin That Unites Us" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.