Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Introduction. Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma 1
6. Part I: Writing After Nuremberg
7. 1. ‘An event that did not become an experience’: Rebecca West’s Nuremberg 23
8. 2. The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt’s Irony 47
9. 3. Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark’s Idiom of Judgement 73
10. Part II: Territorial Rights
11. 4. ‘We Refugees’: Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights 101
12. 5. ‘Creatures of an Impossible Time’: Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen 118
13. 6. The ‘Dark Background of Difference’: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch 141
14. Bibliography 166
15. Index 173