Includes bibliographical references and index.

Voyeurism, complicated mourning, and the fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- Forced confessions: subject position, framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: re-picturing the pre-memory moment -- Bruno Schulz, The Messiah, and ghost/writing the past -- A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love -- See under: mourning -- Blacks, Jews, and southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- (re)reading the Holocaust from a German point of view: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- Mourning and melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Holocaust, apartheid, and the slaughter of animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "difficulty of reality".

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