Gender and Translation: Writing as Resistance in Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo

• Published in: The European legacy, toward new paradigms Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 147 - 165
• Main Author: Breen, Margaret Sönser
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Communication; Gender; Humanity; Levi, Primo; Literature; Masculinity; Resistance; Texts; Translation; Writing

This essay argues that translation in Se questo è un uomo (If This is a Man) (1947), as well as in related pieces, functions for Primo Levi as a key means for claiming and potentially repairing manhood. In its capacity to reposition meaning, translation functions as a powerful vehicle for affirming...