Examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. This book questions whether 'the non-essentializing discourse of postmodernism [can] ever enable a genuine 'working through' to an understanding of the horror of the Holocaust'.

Elizabeth J. Bellamy is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History.