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Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

By: Nancy Harrowitz

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Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

By: Nancy Harrowitz

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah. His voice is among the most important to emerge from this dark chapter in human history. In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi’s Jewish identity played in his choices of how to portray his survival, as well as in his exposition of topics such as bystander complicity. Her analysis uncovers a survivor’s shame that deeply influenced the personas he created to recount his experiences. Exploring a range of Levi’s works, including Survival at Auschwitz and lesser-known works of fiction and poetry, she illustrates key issues within his development as a writer. At the heart of Levi’s discourse, Harrowitz argues, lies a complex interplay of narrative modes that reveals his brilliance as a theorist of testimony.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487512295

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Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Cesare Lombroso & Matilde Serao

By: Nancy Anne Harrowitz

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Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Cesare Lombroso & Matilde Serao

By: Nancy Anne Harrowitz

Are there connections between misogyny and antisemitism? If so, what would these connections be and to what degree are these prejudices reinforced or even generated by nineteenth-century science? This book explores these compelling questions by discussing two Italian authors of the late nineteenth century, a period when both antisemitism and misogyny were crucial concerns to society, as they still are today. One author, Cesare Lombroso, was a famous criminologist whose ideas about juvenile court, indeterminate sentencing, and parole still influence the American justice system. He was Jewish himself, yet wrote a book about antisemitism which blamed the Jews for their condition and proposed assimilation as an answer to the problem of prejudice. He also wrote highly derogatory work on women. The other author, Matilde Serao, a well-known journalist and novelist, built a brilliant career for herself but in her newspaper editorials advised other women to stay home. In her novels she often demonstrated ambivalence and hostility towards women's condition, and she used antisemitic stereotypes in some of her work. Antisemitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference demonstrates how similar is the 'logic' of these two authors' prejudice towards women and Jews, as they both depend on the science of their day, such as Darwinism, to justify their views. It raises as well the issues of why their prejudice focuses on women and Jews, since one author is Jewish and the other a woman, how prejudice towards different groups can intersect, and the role of the difficult and complex concept of self-hatred.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803223749

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Nation, Empire, Decline

Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era

By: Nancy Shumate

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Nation, Empire, Decline

Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era

By: Nancy Shumate

The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in 19th- and 20th-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templates for these 'modern' discourses were forged in their essentials by the early Roman imperial period. Each chapter follows the relevant rhetorical thread in works of Horace, Tacitus or Juvenal, comparing their strategies with the defining structures of modern nationalist or colonialist discourses. General rhetorical principles can be discerned, remarkably persistent across time and circumstances. Classicists will find something new in an approach that systematically analyses the rhetorical strategies that underlie Roman prototypes of these discourses while demonstrating how closely later incarnations follow them.

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A&C Black

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1849667489

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Maps and Meaning

Levitical Models for Contemporary Care

By: Nancy H. Wiener,Jo Hirschmann

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Maps and Meaning

Levitical Models for Contemporary Care

By: Nancy H. Wiener,Jo Hirschmann

Maps and Meaning is relevant to those looking for a fresh perspective on biblical narratives related to the role of the priest, patients, soldiers, and others who spend time “outside the camp.” The authors consider the geographical, interpersonal, temporal, and spiritual transitions individuals experience when they move “in” and “out of the camp” and the impact their time outside the camp has on family and community. The authors propose a societal approach that embraces the inevitability of life’s ebbs and flow and that draws maps to facilitate these journeys.

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Fortress Press

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1451487541

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Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

By: Nancy Harrowitz

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Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Cesare Lombroso & Matilde Serao

By: Nancy Anne Harrowitz

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Cesare Lombroso & Matilde Serao

By: Nancy Anne Harrowitz

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Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan

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Nancy

By: Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan describes her life from her happy childhood to her exciting stage and film career to her experiences as the wife of a famous actor, governor, and presidential candidate and expresses hopeful views on America's future

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0425051536

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Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Nation, Empire, Decline

Nation, Empire, Decline

Maps and Meaning

Maps and Meaning

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference

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