The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature / edited by Jenni Adams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Traces, Dis/Continuities, Complicities: An Introduction to Holocaust Literature -- Current research: 1. A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust / Victoria Aarons -- 2. Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony / Sue Vice -- 3. After Epic: Adorno's Scream and the Shadows of Lyric / David Miller -- 4. Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism and the Counterfactual Historical Novel / Jenni Adams -- 5. Theory and the Ethics of Holocaust Representation / Michael Bernard-Donals -- 6. 'Don't You Know Anything?': Childhood and the Holocaust / Adrienne Kertzer -- 7. Holocaust Postmemory: W.G. Sebald and Gerhard Richter / Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses -- 8. Narrative Perspective and the Holocaust Perpetrator: Edgar Hilsenrath's The Nazi and the Barber and Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones / Erin McGlothlin -- 9. Holocaust Literature and the Taboo / Matthew Boswell -- 10. Holocaust Literature: Comparative Perspectives / Stef Craps -- 11. Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Holocaust Memory / Richard Crownshaw -- New Directions in Holocaust Literary Studies -- . Glossary of major terms and concepts.