Abstract
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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/5431 |
| Date | 19 August 2008 |
| Creators | Collopen, Leigh-Ann Mary |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 226102 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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