Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work

• Main Author: Benvegnù, Damiano (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Ethics.; Humanism.; Animal welfare.; Epistemology.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholar...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal
• 2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability
• 3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony
• 4. Techne I. Animal Hands
• 5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris
• 6. Creation I. A New Writing
• 7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment
• 8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony
• Index.