After representation?: the Holocaust, literature, and culture

Part 1 Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?

1 The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction / Geoffrey Hartman 25

2 Nostalgia and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz 41

3 Death in Language: From Mado's Mourning to the Act of Writing / Petra Schweitzer 59

4 Oskar Rosenfeld And Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status) / Berel Lang 75

Part 2 A Question for Aesthetics?

5 Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context / James E. Young 89

6 Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of Andr Šchwarz-Bart / Michael Rothberg 99

7 "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Israel and Palestine / Michael Bernard-Donals 119

Part 3 How Does Culture Influence Memory?

8 The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory) / R. Clifton Spargo 137

9 "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing": Reflections on Chaos and Order in Literature and Testimony / Sidney Bolkosky 190

10 Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust / Robert Eaglestone 190

11 Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow / Erin McGlothlin 210.