Intro; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Contents; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; 1: Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal; 1.1 Testimony, Identification, Literary Animals; 1.2 Animal Studies and Italian Literature; 1.3 Suffering, Techne, Creation; Works Cited; 2: Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability; 2.1 "Can They Suffer?"; 2.2 "Contro il dolore" and the Debate on Animal Vivisection; Works Cited; 3: Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony; 3.1 Useless Violence, Bare Life, Testimony; 3.2 Belli's Donkey and Hurbinek's Muteness; Works Cited; 4: Techne I. Animal Hands.
4.1 From Homo Faber to Techne; 4.2 The Hand that Writes: Writing as Techne and the Orangutan; Works Cited; 5: Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris; 5.1 Science Fiction and the Monstrous Work of Zoomorphism; 5.2 Centaurial Literature, Hybrid Techne; Works Cited; 6: Creation I. A New Writing; 6.1 Toward "uno scrivere nuovo"; 6.2 Creation and Re-Creation: Genesis; Works Cited; 7: Creation II. Re-Enchantment; 7.1 Invented Animals and the Work of Testimony; 7.2 Darwin, Job, and the Re-Enchantment of the World; Works Cited; 8: Conclusion. Animal Testimony; Works Cited; Works Cited; Index.
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Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism.