A scholarly look at The diary of Anne Frank / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index.

The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim -- The Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen / Lawrence L. Langer -- Growing up banished : a reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas -- The dead child speaks : reading The diary of Anne Frank / Sander L. Gilman -- Anne Frank's reading / Sylvia Patterson Iskander -- Anne Frank's autobiographical style / Sylvia Patterson Iskander -- Anne Frank on and off Broadway / Molly Magid Hoagland -- The utopian space of a nightmare : The diary of Anne Frank / Barbara Chiarello -- Who owns Anne Frank? / Cynthia Ozick.