Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Readability and Unreadability: A Fractured Dialogue 9
5. Part I. Generational Differences in Holocaust Literature
6. 2. Before, During, and After: Reading and the Eyewitness 35
7. 3. Reading to Belong: Second-Generation and the Audience of Self 58
8. 4. The Third Generation’s Holocaust: The Story of Time and Place 87
9. Part II. Pushed to the Edges: The Holocaust in American Fiction
10. 5. American Fiction and the Act of Genocide 119
11. 6. Receding into the Distance: The Holocaust as Background 155
12. Afterword: Reading the Fragments of Memory 175
13. Acknowledgments 179
14. Notes 181
15. Bibliography 199
16. Index 209