Affective GenealogiesAffective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. Central to Bellamys study is her questioning of whether "the non essentializing discourse of postmodernism [can] ever enable a genuine working through to an understanding of the horror of the Holocaust." She