belated witness: literature, testimony, and the question of Holocaust survival

Takes a new approach to the philosophical challenge of how to represent the inexpressible by seeking to reorientate the study of Holocaust literature and survivor testimony away from the focus on the awestruck language of the unspeakable to the spaces between speech and silence, and body and text. Discusses Maus I and II, Christa Wolf's 'Patterns of childhood', Ozick's 'The Shawl', and Celan's poetry.