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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511509903321

Autore

Ross Charlotte <1974->

Titolo

Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-86884-4

1-136-86885-2

1-282-88584-7

9786612885846

0-203-83719-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 16

Disciplina

853/.914

Soggetti

Holocaust survivors' writings - History and criticism

Human body in literature

Mind and body in literature

Humanity in literature

Technology in literature

Human body (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; Note on Terminology; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ontologies and Epistemologies; 1 Containers and Their Contents; 2 Embodying (In/Non-)Humanity; 3 Embodied Knowledges and Epistemological Dualism; Part II: Bodily Modifications and Mutations; Foreword: Thinking of the Future: Science Fiction; 4 Bodies, Prostheses and Sentient Technologies; 5 Bureaucratized and Technologized Bodies; 6 Close Couplings and Docile Bodies; 7 Recombining the Organic Human Body; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi's works - from testimony to



journalism, from essays to science fiction stories - identifying and tracing multiple narratives of embodiment and disembodiment across his oeuvre. These narratives range from the abject, disembodied condition of prisoners in Auschwitz, to posthuman or cyborg individuals, whose bodies merge with technological devices. Levi's representations of bodies are explored in relation to theories of