Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Descent and Return - the katabatic imagination 1
5. Chapter 1 Hell in our time 13
6. Chapter 2 Chronotopes of hell 42
7. Chapter 3 Auschwitz as hell 63
8. Chapter 4 Surviving with ghosts: second-generation holocaust narratives 89
9. Chapter 5 Katabatic memoirs of mental Illnes 113
10. Chapter 6 Engendering dissent in the underworld 144
11. Chapter 7 Postmodern hell and the search for roots 172
12. Chapter 8 East-west descent narratives 196
13. Epilogue: Katabasis in the twenty-first century 224
14. Apendix: Primo Levi, 'Map of reading' 232
15. Bibliography 233
16. Index 253