New Reflections on Primo Levi

1. Introduction
Millicent Marcus, Risa Sodi

Part I. Politics, Nationalism, and Collective Memory

2. Primo Levi’s Politics
Stanislao Pugliese

3. The Itinerary of an Identity
Nancy Harrowitz

4. Primo Levi and Holocaust Memory in Italy, 1958–1963
Robert S. C. Gordon

Part II. Unbearable Witness

5. Trauma and Latency in Primo Levi’s The Reawakening
Jonathan Druker

6. The Witness’s Tape Recorder and the Violence of Mediation
Lina Insana

7. The Strange Case of the Muselmänner in Auschwitz
Joseph Farrell

Part III. Strategies of Communication and Representation

8. Primo Levi and Italo Calvino
Marina Beer

9. “L’immagine di lui che ho conservato”
Elizabeth Scheiber

10. The Survivor as Author
Lawrence Langer

Part IV. Authorship and Fashioning the Text

11. How It All Started
Nicholas Patruno

12. Levi’s Western
Mirna Cicioni

13. Mind the Gap
Ellen Nerenberg

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Anthropology