After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesuthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature.

As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersuwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideuarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity...