Choice
"...solid and well written...Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."


Indiana Jewish Post & Opinion
"This interesting book examines the controversies surrounding some of the more popular novels written about the Holocaust."


H.emeritus, Monroe Community College
"This particular study--solid and well written--joins the growing list of studies on the subject.."


Book Description
Holocaut Fiction examines the controversies accompanying the publication of novels that represent the Holocaust. Sue Vice examines the most debatable of this genre of literature, the violently mixed receptions of these fictions, and offers what can concluded from their receptions about the ethics and practice of millennial Holocaust literature. Although several of the novels discussed won literary prizes on publication, they were also deplored and criticized. The Novels examined, including some for the first time are:
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinsky
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Darville In this gripping and compelling book, Vice surveys the fictional, critical and theoretical territory of these novels, and brings a new slant to the key debates and issues relevant to those looking at representations of the Holocaust.


About the Author
Sue Vice is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, and set up Britain's first Holocaust Studies MA. Her books include Introducing Bakhtin.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Holocaut Fiction examines the controversies accompanying the publication of novels that represent the Holocaust. Sue Vice examines the most debatable of this genre of literature, the violently mixed receptions of these fictions, and offers what can concluded from their receptions about the ethics and practice of millennial Holocaust literature. Although several of the novels discussed won literary prizes on publication, they were also deplored and criticized.

The Novels examined, including some for the first time are:

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinsky

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

The Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Darville

In this gripping and compelling book, Vice surveys the fictional, critical and theoretical territory of these novels, and brings a new slant to the key debates and issues relevant to those looking at representations of the Holocaust.