Narrating survival in Primo Levi's If this is a man, and The drowned and the saved
dc.contributor.author | Collopen, Leigh-Ann Mary | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-08-19T10:05:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-08-19T10:05:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-08-19T10:05:23Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract This research report explores the process of narrating survival in Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man and The Drowned and The Saved. The central objective is to understand the process of psychological survival is narrated in Levi’s autobiographical narrative. To this end, I have used a psychoanalytical framework to understand the traumatic impact of Auschwitz on subjectivity as well as to position subjectivity in relation to autobiographical narrative. I shall argue that the trauma of Auschwitz resulted in an eroded and shattered subjectivity and that narrative offers a space in which the reconstruction of that subjectivity can be negotiated. | en |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5431 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | narrating survival | en |
dc.subject | Primo Levi | en |
dc.subject | Lacanian theory | en |
dc.subject | subjectivity | en |
dc.subject | historical trauma | en |
dc.subject | autobiographical narrative | en |
dc.title | Narrating survival in Primo Levi's If this is a man, and The drowned and the saved | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |