Schizoid Clio: 'The Hand That Signed the Paper'

As with visual representations of the Holocaust, fictional accounts of one of the greatest traumas of the twentieth century are impregnated with aesthetic difficulties and political controversy. How else can we explain the, at times, hysterical responses both for and against the appearance of, and the awards heaped upon, Helen Demidenko/Darville's The Hand That Signed the Paper?