Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. Introduction. On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation 1
5. PART ONE. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?
6. 1. The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction 25
7. 2. Nostalgia and the Holocaust 41
8. 3. Death in Language 59
9. 4. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism 75
10. PART TWO. A Question for Aesthetics?
11. 5. Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context 89
12. 6. Writing Ruins 99
13. 7. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” 119
14. PART THREE. How Does Culture Influence Memory? 135
15. 8. The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison 137
16. 9. “And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing” 179
17. 10. Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust 190
18. 11. Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow 210
19. CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES 231
20. INDEX 235