New reflections on Primo Levi : before and after Auschwitz / edited by Risa Sodi and Millicent Marcus.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

Politics, nationalism, and collective memory -- Primo Levi's politics: Giustizia e libertà, the Partito d'azione and "Jewish" antifascism / Stanislao Pugliese -- The itinerary of an identity: Primo Levi's "parallel nationalization" / Nancy Harrowitz -- Primo Levi and Holocaust memory in Italy, 1958-1963 / Robert Gordon -- Unbearable witness -- Trauma and latency in Primo Levi's The reawakening / Jonathan Druker -- The witness's tape recorder and the violence of mediation / Lina Insana -- The strange case of the Muselmänner in Auschwitz / Joseph Farrell -- Strategies of communication and representation -- Primo Levi and Italo Calvino: two parallel literary lives / Marina Beer -- "L'immagine di lui che ho conservato": communication and memory in Lilít / Elizabeth Scheiber -- The survivor as author: Primo Levi's literary vision of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer -- Authorship and fashioning the text -- Appreciating Primo Levi: how it all started / Nicholas Patruno -- Levi's western: "professional plot" and history in If not now, when? / Mirna Cicioni -- Mind the gap: performance and semiosis in Primo Levi / Ellen Nerenberg.