Abstract

ABSTRACT Since 2005, Italy has witnessed a boom in the production of graphic life narratives dedicated to both well-known, internationally established public figures and victims of Italy’s post-war history, whose memory has only recently started to be negotiated. Some of these figures have even inspired several artists, who have approached the life narrative genre from different angles. A particularly striking case is that of Primo Levi, whose life and works are the subject of three graphic narratives. In this article, we explore the extent to which these narratives address the complex figure of Primo Levi and how the multimodal medium of the graphic narrative can extend the transgenerational reach of postmemory by negotiating the memory of first-generation Holocaust survivors.

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