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A critical and interpretive study of the literature of atrocity, major imaginative writing inspired and informed by the Holocaust, examining works in English translation by such writers as Aichinger,
Interpretive readings of the nine major fictions, tracing and explicating recurring and key biographical, verbal, imagistic, symbolic, and mythic motifs, patterns, and sequences as defining components
