Narrating survival in Primo Levi's If this is a man, and The drowned and the saved

dc.contributor.authorCollopen, Leigh-Ann Mary
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-19T10:05:23Z
dc.date.available2008-08-19T10:05:23Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-19T10:05:23Z
dc.description.abstractAbstract 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.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/5431
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectnarrating survivalen
dc.subjectPrimo Levien
dc.subjectLacanian theoryen
dc.subjectsubjectivityen
dc.subjecthistorical traumaen
dc.subjectautobiographical narrativeen
dc.titleNarrating survival in Primo Levi's If this is a man, and The drowned and the saveden
dc.typeThesisen

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