| Contents |
Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust : The ghost writer, The diary, The kindly ones, and me -- Section I: Psychoanalytic listening and fictions of the Holocaust. 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 -- Section II: Golems, ghosts, idols, and messiahs : complicated mourning and the intertextual construction of a Jewish symptom. Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and ghost/writing the past ; A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love ; See under : mourning -- Section III: Mourning becomes the nations : Styron, Schlink, Sebald. 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." |
