Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Foreword: The Rumpelstiltskin Factor (Jane Yolen) Editors' Preface (Judith B. Kerman and John Edgar Browning) Introduction: Fantasy as Testimony (Gary K. Wolfe) Part I: Avenues of the Fantastic in Holocaust Literature Uses of the Fantastic in Literature of the Holocaust (Judith B. Kerman) The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature: Writing and Unwriting the Unbearable (Michael P. McCleary) Surviving the Survivor: Art Spiegelman's Maus (Joan Gordon) The Fantastic Search for Hitler: The Fhrer's Defense in His Own Words (Eric J. Sterling) "Hidden in Plain Sight": On Holocaust Fantasy in the Metaphysical Detective Story (Patricia Merivale) The Summons of Freedom: Fantastic History in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (Paul Eisenstein) Part II: The Holocaust and Fantasy Literature The Last of the Just: Lifting Moloch to Heave (Jules Zanger) The Door to Lilith's Cave: Memory and Imagination in Jane Yolen's Holocaust Novels (Ellen R. Weil) Mother Goose Tales: Intergenerational Storytelling and the Holocaust in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Peter Rushforth's Kindergarten (Vandana Saxena) The Devil's Arithmetic and Time Travel: Truth and Memory (Carol A. Senf) Part III. (Re)Imagining the Holocaust Through Horror, Humor and Science Fiction A Holocaust Education in Reverse: Stephen King's "The Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil" (Leon Stein) Holocaust-as-Horror, Science Fiction and the "Look" of the "Real/Reel" in V (1983) (John Edgar Browning) A Dishonest Reckoning: Play-"Acting Through" Personal Trauma and the Shoah in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010) (Kristopher Mecholsky) Going Beyond Horror: Fantasy, Humor and the Holocaust (Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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