Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Note vi
3. CONTENTS vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. History and Memory: In the Shadow of the Holocaust 8
7. CHAPTER TWO. Revisiting the Historians' Debate: Mourning and Genocide 43
8. CHAPTER THREE. Rereading Camus's The Fall after Auschwitz and with Algeria 73
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Lanzmann's Shoah: "Here There Is No Why" 95
10. CHAPTER FIVE. 'Twas the Night before Christmas: Art Spiegelman's Maus 139
11. CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion: Psychoanalysis, Memory, and the Ethical Tum 180
12. Index 211