This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust
fiction. Using Gillian Rose's theory of Holocaust piety, it argues
that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust,
contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on
gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by
discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our
understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this
gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional
distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book
argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by
creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different
concepts relating to embodied experience - from Sonia Kruks' notion
of feeling-with to Alison Landsberg's prosthetic memory - the book
analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to
establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach
the Holocaust impiously.
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