Reshaping the Holocaust: Australian fiction, an Australian past, and the reconfiguration of "traditional" Holocaust narratives

Some Australian fiction promotes a unique stance in regard to the Holocaust and the Third Reich. Reading Helen Demidenko/Darville's "The hand that signed the paper" and James McQueen's "White light", the author shows that a cultural naivety exists in Australia, due to historical and cultural influences since the Second World War. These factors have influenced the country's memorializatiion of, and response to, the Holocaust