Preface -- Introduction: On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation -- Table of Contents -- Part One: Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? -- Chapter 1: The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction -- Chapter 2: Nostalgia and the Holocaust -- Chapter 3: Death in Language: From Mado's Mourning to the Act of Writing -- Chapter 4: Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism: (including Sex, Shit, and Status) -- Part Two: A Question for Aesthetics? -- Chapter 5: Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context -- Chapter 6: Writing Ruins: The Anachronistic Aesthetics of André Schwarz-Bart -- Chapter 7: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Israel and Palestine -- Part Three: How Does Culture Influence Memory? -- Chapter 8: The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison: (The Technique of Figurative Allegory) -- Chapter 9: "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing": Reflections on Chaos and Order in Literature and Testimony -- Chapter 10: Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust -- Chapter 11: Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow -- Contributor's Biographies -- Index.