A major new collection of essays examining the problems of representing the Holocaust in fiction. The essays assembled here deal with the relations between the discourses of fiction (or imaginative reconstruction), philosophy, historiography and theory; with the impact of different national contexts on representational strategies; with the 'idioms for the unrepresentable' evolved by contemporary novelists and playwrights and with the continuing centrality of notions of authenticity and legitimacy to writing which takes the Holocaust as its theme.
Notes on Contributors Introduction Holocaust-genres and the Turn to History; B.Lang Holocaust Writing in Context: Italy 1945 - 1947; R.Gordon Representations of the Holocaust in Women's Testimony; A.Hardman Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction; B.Cheyette The Holocaust as Seen Through the Eyes of Children ;A.Reiter From Behind the Bars of Quotation Marks: Emmanuel Levina's (Non)-Representation of the Holocaust; R.Eaglestone Idioms for the Unrepresentable: Post-war Fiction and the Shoah; A.Parry The Demidenko Affair and Contemporary Holocaust Fiction; S.Vice Is Aharon Appelfeld an Holocaust Writer?; L.I.Yudkin The Mirror of Memory: Patrick Modiano's La Place de L'Etoile and Dora Bruder ; S.Khalifa 'Il n'y a qu'une Espèce Humaine': Between Duras and Antelme; M.Crowley
