Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: This World and Others -- PART ONE: WHAT SORT OF HOME IS THE PAST? -- Forethought: Building a House of Words -- 1 Eli Mandel's Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies -- 2 Writing around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers -- 3 Taking the Victims' Side: Mordecai Richler's Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's Horseman -- PART TWO: STRANGE PRESENCES -- Forethought: Facing Up to the Past -- 4 Strange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy -- 5 Philip Roth's Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank -- 6 Ghost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life -- PART THREE: CONFRONTING APOCALYPSE -- Forethought: On Refusing to End -- 7 Apocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust -- 8 An End to Endings: Saul Bellow's Anti-Apocalyptic Novel -- PART FOUR: THE COLLABORATOR -- Forethought -- 9 Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy -- Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y.