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Testimony from the Nazi Camps  \nFrench Women’s Voices Margaret-Anne Hutton  \n2. Modern Confessional Writing  \nNew Critical Essays Edited by Jo Gill  \n3. Cold War Literature  \nWriting the Global Conflict Andrew Hammond  \n4. Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty  \nAndrew John Miller  \n5. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity  \nThe Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction Peta Mitchell  \n6. Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption  \nEating the Avant-Garde Michel Delville  \n7. Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema  \nJason Borge  \n8. Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall  \nIdeology, Conflict, and Aesthetics Les Brookes  \n9. Anglophone Jewish Literature  \n10. Before Auschwitz  \nIrène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France Angela Kershaw  \n11. Travel and Drugs in TwentiethCentury Literature  \nLindsey Michael Banco  \n12. Diary Poetics  \nForm and Style in Writers’ Diaries, 1915–1962  \nAnna Jackson  \n13. Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change  \nRace, Sex and Nation Gerardine Meaney  \n14. Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern  \nNeil R. Davison  \n15. Travel and Modernist Literature  \nSacred and Ethical Journeys Alexandra Peat  \n16. Primo Levi’s Narratives of Embodiment  \nContaining the Human Charlotte Ross  \nAxel Stähler  \nPrimo Levi’s Narratives of Embodiment  \nContaining the Human  \nCharlotte Ross  \nNew York London  \nFirst published 2011 by Routledge  \n270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016  \nSimultaneously published in the UK by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010.  \nTo purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).  \n© 2011 Taylor & Francis  \nThe right of Charlotte Ross to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ross, Charlotte, 1974–  \nPrimo Levi’s narratives of embodiment : containing the human / by Charlotte Ross.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 16) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \n1. Levi, Primo—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Holocaust survivors’ writings—History and criticism. 3. Human body in literature. 4. Mind and body in literature. 5. Humanity in literature. 6. Technology in literature. 7. Human body (Philosophy) I. 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