• Introduction


• 1: The public secret


• 2: Evil


• 3: Stasis


• 4: Disorientalism


• 5: Disorientalism Today


• 6: Post-Holocaust Kitsch


• Conclusion

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. He is the author of five books including Ethical Criticism: Reading after Levinas (1997) and The Holocaust and the Postmodern (2004), and the editor or co-editor of seven more.
He is Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Centre at Royal Holloway.

Robert Eaglestone explores the interweaving of complicity, responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic powers of narrative which make up some part of the legacy of the Holocaust. He examines a range of texts by significant writers, as well as work by victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust and of atrocities in Africa.