Writing the Holocaust

<p><i>Writing the Holocaust</i>provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust.</p><br/><p>Holocaust studies is at a paradox: while historians of the Holocaust defend it as a legitimate and well-defined area of research they write against a complex political and ideological background that undermines any claim for it as a normative field of historical study. <i>Writing the Holocaust</i>offers a lucid enquiry into this complex field by demonstrating the impact of current theories from the humanities and social sciences upon the treatment of Holocaust studies.</p>