New reflections on Primo Levi [electronic resource] : before and after Auschwitz / edited by Risa Sodi and Millicent Marcus.
Sodi, Risa B., 1957-; Marcus, Millicent Joy.
2011
PQ4872.E8 Z767 2011eb
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Title New reflections on Primo Levi [electronic resource] : before and after Auschwitz / edited by Risa Sodi and Millicent Marcus.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780230119673 (electronic bk.)
9780230103856
Publication Details New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 214 p.)
Call Number PQ4872.E8 Z767 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 853/.914
Summary Primo Levi's hold on scholarly, critical and public attention grows with the passing of time. He commands a position of prominence in discourses ranging across the disciplines of Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, Italian literature, politics, history and philosophy. Certain of his concepts (the "grey zone") or certain concepts popularized through his works (the Musulmann phenomenon) play a significant role in contemporary intellectual discourse. In addition, Levi's reflections on the act and the possibility of witness, and of recounting trauma, are increasingly cited by a range of thinkers. This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theatre, for example). Of special interest and utility are the chapters that situate his thought within wider contexts: his epistemological connection to ancient Greeks, and his contributions to Holocaust phenomenology.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Sodi, Risa B., 1957-
Marcus, Millicent Joy.
Series Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Politics, nationalism, and collective memory
Primo Levi's politics: Giustizia e libertà, the Partito d'azione and "Jewish" antifascism / Stanislao Pugliese
The itinerary of an identity: Primo Levi's "parallel nationalization" / Nancy Harrowitz
Primo Levi and Holocaust memory in Italy, 1958-1963 / Robert Gordon
Unbearable witness
Trauma and latency in Primo Levi's The reawakening / Jonathan Druker
The witness's tape recorder and the violence of mediation / Lina Insana
The strange case of the Muselmänner in Auschwitz / Joseph Farrell
Strategies of communication and representation
Primo Levi and Italo Calvino: two parallel literary lives / Marina Beer
"L'immagine di lui che ho conservato": communication and memory in Lilít / Elizabeth Scheiber
The survivor as author: Primo Levi's literary vision of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer
Authorship and fashioning the text
Appreciating Primo Levi: how it all started / Nicholas Patruno
Levi's western: "professional plot" and history in If not now, when? / Mirna Cicioni
Mind the gap: performance and semiosis in Primo Levi / Ellen Nerenberg.

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